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While national crime rates have recently fallen, crimes committed by women have risen 200 percent, yet we continue to transform female violence into victimhood by citing PMS, battered wife syndrome, and postpartum depression as sources of women?s actions.
When She Was Bad convincingly overturns these perceptions by telling the stories of such women as Karla Faye Tucker, who was recently executed for having killed two people with a pickax; Dorothea Puente, who murdered several elderly tenants in her boarding house; and Aileen Wuornos, a Florida woman who shot seven men. Patricia Pearson marshals a vast amount of research and statistical support from criminologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, and sociologists, and includes many revealing interviews with dozens of men and women in the criminal justice system who have firsthand experience with violent women. When She Was Bad is a fearless and superbly written call to reframe our ideas about female violence and, by extension, female power.
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Patricia Pearson is an award-winning feminist writer and crime journalist who has worked at Harper?s magazine and had articles appear in The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, and Details. She served as field producer for Lifetime?s documentary series Confessions of Crime.
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- PublisherRandom House of Canada, Limited
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0679309624
- ISBN 13 9780679309628
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Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Steven Dana (illustrator). Second Edition 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front Cover; Front, Rear Cover, Spine Lightly Chipped; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. With a New Afterword. DESIGNED BY: Pei Koay. COVER ILLUSTRATION BY: Steven Dana. Cover image originally appeared in the March 9, 1998 issue of The New Yorker. COVER DESIGN BY: Jesse Marinoff Reyes. CONTENTS: Girls Will Be Girls - The Nature of Female Aggression; Maybe You Mistook Me for an Angel - Perceptions of Female Violence & the Vocabulary of Motive; The Problem That Still Has No Name - Women Who Aggress Newborns & Infants; Medea in Her Modern Guise - The Use of Children as Pawns; Balancing the Domestic Equation - When Women Assault Their Spouses or Lovers; Woman as Predator - Methods of the Multiple Murderess; What's Love Got to Do with It? - Women as Partners in Violent Crime; Island of Women - The World of the Female Prison; Let the Gun Smoke - Holding Ourselves Accountable for Our Deeds; Epilogue; Notes; Index. SYNOPSIS: A fearless and superbly written call to reframe our ideas about female violence. Why do young women murder their babies and dump them in trash cans? What motivates women to team up with men on ghoulish killing sprees? Who are the victims of the female serial killer? When She Was Bad explores the heart of female darkness and shows that women are more violent than anyone supposed. Patricia Pearson includes spell-binding portraits of contemporary murderesses including Karla Faye Tucker, who was recently executed for having killed two people with a pickax; Karla Homolka, who raped and killed three women, including her sister, and then blamed it on battered wife syndrome; and Aileen Wuornos, a Florida woman who shot seven men. And Pearson marshals a vast amount of research and statistical support from criminologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, and sociologists, and includes many revealing interviews with dozens of men and women in the criminal justice system who have firsthand experience with violent women. When She Was Bad is a fascinating study whose findings will take center stage in future discussions of female violence. Patricia Pearson is an award-winning writer and crime journalist. She won a National Magazine Award for her article on Karla Homolka, "Behind Every Successful Psychopath." She is a contributing editor for Saturday Night, as well as writing for many other publications and for television both in Canada and the United States. AWARDS: 1997 Arthur Ellis Award for Best True Crime. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 004021
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