Women Who Kill.
Jones, Ann. Women Who Kill. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, [1980]. First edition. xviii, 408 pp. Publisher's quarter cloth over boards very good, in moderately worn dust jacket. Internally clean. A very good copy. $45. * This book explores the history of women in America, from the Colonial Era to the 20th century, who committed murder, analyzing how their crimes and the subsequent legal responses reflected contemporary social prejudices and the "evolving forms of oppression and abuse" in culture. It notes that while women rarely resort to murder, when they do, they most often kill those closest to them, such as husbands, lovers, or children. The author argues that women who kill are often ordinary individuals responding to extreme circumstances within a male-dominated society.
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