Women, Murder and Femininity: Gender Representations of Women Who Kill

Introduction: Women, Murder and Femininity PART 1: FIVE GENDER REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN WHO KILL PART 2: GENDER, MURDER AND MID TWENTIETH-CENTURY ENGLAND AND WALES Gender Representations of Twelve Mid Twentieth-Century Women Accused of Murder Conclusion to Part 2 Appendix - Two Further Cases from the Sample Endnotes Bibliography

LIZZIE SEAL is Lecturer in Criminology at Durham University, UK. She has written on perceptions of women accused of murder and public views of the death penalty in England and Wales.