The Enigma of a Violent Woman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Enigma of a Violent Woman write by Jennifer M. Kilty. This book was released on 2016-04-14. The Enigma of a Violent Woman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Karla Homolka has proven to be a figure of enduring interest to the public and media for the last 20 years. However, despite the widespread Canadian and international public commentary and media frenzy that has encircled this case, Homolka herself remains an enigma to most who write about her. In contrast to much of the contemporary discussion on this case, this book offers a comprehensive and detailed examination of the legal, public and media understandings and explanations of Homolka’s criminality. Drawing from multiple fields of study and varied bodies of critical literature, the book uses Homolka as an object lesson to interrogate some of the narratives and conceptualizations of ‘violent women’, the problematic normative constructions of womanhood and ‘acceptable femininity’, leniency in sentencing, taboo and disgust, and questions of remorse. The authors address broad questions about how women convicted of violence are typically constructed across four sites: the courts; the academy; the mainstream media; and public discourse. This unique text is extremely important for feminist criminology and socio-legal studies, offering the first comprehensive academic effort to engage in dialogue about this important and fascinating case.
Women and Gendered Violence in Canada
Women and Gendered Violence in Canada - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Gendered Violence in Canada write by Chris Bruckert. This book was released on 2018-01-01. Women and Gendered Violence in Canada available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Violence against women is usually framed as an issue of interpersonal violence perpetuated by men. While domestic violence and sexual assault are significant social problems, such a narrow framing obscures the diversity of women's experience, fails to illuminate the role social structures play, and excludes discussions of workplace and state violence. By drawing on a range of theoretical traditions emerging from feminism, criminology, and sociology, Women and Gendered Violence in Canada significantly expands the conversation on violence against women. The first section of the book develops the conceptual and contextual framework that informs the remainder of the text, and the following three sections are organized around types of victimization: interpersonal, labour site, and state. Each chapter ends with lists of suggested activities, and first person narratives are integrated throughout to personalize the material and issues being examined.
Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema
Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema write by Janice Loreck. This book was released on 2016-04-08. Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Violent women in cinema pose an exciting challenge to spectators, overturning ideas of 'typical' feminine subjectivity. This book explores the representation of homicidal women in contemporary art and independent cinema. Examining narrative, style and spectatorship, Loreck investigates the power of art cinema to depict transgressive femininity.
Gender, Crime and Justice
Gender, Crime and Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender, Crime and Justice write by Lizzie Seal. This book was released on 2021-11-15. Gender, Crime and Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This textbook takes a gender inclusive and intersectional feminist approach to examining key topics related to gender, crime and justice. It provides an overview and critical discussion of contemporary issues and research in this area suitable for use in undergraduate and postgraduate degree modules. A key feature of the book is its use of films, television series and documentaries to illustrate the concepts and findings from criminological research on gender, crime and justice. After outlining the meaning of gender and the perspective of intersectional feminism, it has chapters focused on interpersonal and sexual violence, sex work and the night-time economy, street crime, crimes of the powerful, policing and the courts, prison and community penalties and a final chapter on extreme punishment and abolitionist futures. It speaks to students and academics in criminology, sociology and gender studies.
Madness, Violence, and Power
Madness, Violence, and Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Madness, Violence, and Power write by Andrea Daley. This book was released on 2019-05-06. Madness, Violence, and Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Madness, Violence, and Power: A Critical Collection disengages from the common forms of discussion about violence related to mental health service users and survivors which position those users or survivors as more likely to enact violence or become victims of violence. Instead, this book seeks to broaden understandings of violence manifest in the lives of mental health service users/survivors, ‘push’ current considerations to explore the impacts of systems and institutions that manage ‘abnormality’, and to create and foster space to explore the role of our own communities in justice and accountability dialogues. This critical collection constitutes an integral contribution to critical scholarship on violence and mental illness by addressing a gap in the existing literature by broadening the “violence lens,” and inviting an interdisciplinary conversation that is not narrowly biomedical and neuro-scientific.
