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Media studies. --- Murder in motion pictures. --- Women murderers in motion pictures.

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This collection examines the meaning, construction and deconstruction of the murdering woman. These essays suggest that the ways in which gender, race, class and sexuality play into representations of women murderers is key to understanding the patriarchal underpinnings of our judicial system as they apply to women criminals.

Murder in literature. --- Murder in motion pictures. --- Women murderers in literature. --- Women murderers in motion pictures. --- Women murderers. --- Murder in literature --- Murder in motion pictures --- Women murderers in literature --- Women murderers in motion pictures --- Women murderers --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- Female homicide offenders --- Murderesses --- Women homicide offenders --- Female offenders --- Murderers --- Motion pictures

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The essays in Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence find important connections in the ways that women are portrayed in relation to violence, whether they are murder victims or killers. The book's extensive cultural contexts acknowledge and engage with contemporary theories and practices of identity politics and debates about the ethics and politics of representation itself. Does representation produce or reproduce the conditions of violence? Is representation itself a form of violence? This book adds significant new dimensions to the characterization of gender and

Mass media --- Motion pictures --- Violence in mass media. --- Women in mass media. --- Violence in motion pictures. --- Women murderers in motion pictures. --- Women --- Violence in women. --- Women murderers. --- Female homicide offenders --- Murderesses --- Women homicide offenders --- Female offenders --- Murderers --- Female violence --- Violent women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Violence in moving-pictures --- Social aspects. --- Violence against. --- Crimes against --- Women Violence against --- Violence against