Women Accused of Murder in Nineteenth-Century England got bad
press. Broadsides, newspapers, and books depicted their stories in
gruesome detail, often with illustrations of the crime scene, the
courtroom proceedings, and the execution. Unlike murders committed
by men, murders by women were sensationalized. The press -- and the
public -- were fascinated by these acts 'most unnatural' of the
fairer sex.
Judith Knelman contends that this portrayal of the murderess was
linked to a broader public agenda, set and controlled by men. Women
were supposed to be mothers and wives, giving and sustaining life.
If a woman killed her baby or husband, she posed a threat to
patriarchal authority. Knelman describes the range and incidence of
murder by women in England. She analyzes case histories of
different kinds of murder, and explores how press representations
of the murderess contributed to the Victorian construction of
femininity.
If readers in the nineteenth century shivered at accounts of
murder by women, we should get an equal chill up the spine today
reading about how these women were perceived. Twisting in the Wind
is a book that won't leave any of its readers -- true crime fans,
sociologists and criminologists, historians, or researchers in
women's studies -- hanging in doubt.
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