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When Women Kill

By Zerán, Alia Trabucco

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When Women Kill

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Winner of the 2022 British Academy Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. Novelist Alia Trabucco Zerán has long been fascinated not only with the root causes of violence against women, but by those women who have violently rejected the domestic and passive roles they were meant by their culture to inhabit. Choosing as her subject four iconic homicides perpetrated by Chilean women in the twentieth century, she spent years researching this brilliant work of narrative nonfiction detailing not only the troubling tales of the murders themselves, but the story of how society, the media and men in power reacted to these killings, painting their perpetrators as witches, hysterics, or femmes fatales . . . That is, either evil or out of control. Corina Rojas, Rosa Faúndez, Carolina Geel and Teresa Alfaro all committed murder. Their crimes not only led to substantial court decisions, but gave rise to multiple novels, poems, short stories, paintings, plays, songs and films, produced and reproduced throughout the last century. In When Women Kill, we are provided with timelines of events leading up to and following their killings, their apprehension by the authorities, their trials and their representation in the media throughout and following the judicial process. Running in parallel with this often horrifying testimony are the diaries kept by Trabucco Zerán while she worked on her research, addressing the obstacles and dilemmas she encountered as she tackled this discomfiting yet necessary project.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2022-03-09
Publication Date:
2022-03-24
Publisher:
And Other Stories
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
191350526X
ISBN13:
9781913505264
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
224 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
194 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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