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Medea's Daughters: Forming and Performing the Woman Who Kills

Medea's Daughters: Forming and Performing the Woman Who Kills

Jones, Jennifer

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Literary CriticismFilm StudiesTrue Crime

ISBN10: 0814251145
ISBN13: 9780814251140
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Sep 1 2003
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.14
Language: English

In Medea's Daughters, Jennifer Jones explores the legal, cultural, and dramatic representations of six accused murderesses to look at how English-speaking society responded to and controlled anxiety over female transgressions. The woman who kills-in particular, the woman who kills a member of her own family-has not only broken the law, she has also violated gender expectations. Jones argues that dramatic representations of criminal women, especially women who kill, proliferate during times of heightened feminist activity and that theatrical narratives, as evidenced in plays, television, and film, serve to contain women and deflect attention away from issues of women's systematic repression.

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