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Journal Article
Murder in the Feminine: Marie Lafarge and the Sexualization of the Nineteenth-Century Criminal Woman
2009
Overview
Downing examines a series of European nineteenth-century discourses-medical, literary, and popular-about the female murderer in France in particular and in Europe more generally and traces their persistence in present-day thinking.
Publisher
University of Texas Press,University of Texas at Austin (University of Texas Press)
Subject
/ Anthropology, Cultural - education
/ Anthropology, Cultural - history
/ Crime - legislation & jurisprudence
/ Crime Victims - legislation & jurisprudence
/ Criticism and interpretation
/ Female
/ Feminism
/ History
/ Homicide - legislation & jurisprudence
/ Homosexuality, Female - ethnology
/ Homosexuality, Female - history
/ Homosexuality, Female - psychology
/ Humans
/ Killing
/ Men
/ Murder
/ Social Conditions - economics
/ Social Conditions - legislation & jurisprudence
/ Social Control Policies - economics
/ Social Control Policies - history
/ Social Control Policies - legislation & jurisprudence
/ Virtues
/ Women
/ Women's Health - legislation & jurisprudence
/ Women's Rights - legislation & jurisprudence
