Moving Targets: Women, Murder, and... EDITED by Helen Birch (1st Ed., 1994, PB)

Description: Moving Targets: Women, Murder, and Representation EDITED by Helen BirchEAN: 9780520085749ISBN: 9780520085749Publisher: University of California PressFirst Edition: 1994, PaperbackPages: 312Product Dimensions: 1 x 8.25 x 5.5Language: English Book OverviewThe rampaging female has become a new cliché in Hollywood cinema, a sexy beauty stabbing and shooting her way to box office success. Fatal Attraction, Thelma and Louise, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Single White Female and other mainstream films have attracted huge audi- ences; meanwhile, true accounts of a teenager shooting her lover's wife and a battered woman bludgeoning her husband to death get prime news media coverage and are quickly made into TV movies.This pioneering collection of essays looks at our fascination with women who murder. The authors explore how women both fictional and real are represented, as well as the way society responds to these women. The re- sult is a fascinating, often shocking picture of female violence that cov ers a vast territory, including the Australian outback, a Florida highway, an Austrian hospital, a French village, and, of course, Hollywood. The women are as diverse as their settings: prostitutes, housemaids, nurses, high-powered professionals, middle-class housewives.There is much here to provoke controversy: What is the role of premen strual syndrome? How does society view lesbianism? Is female violence defense against patriarchy? What is "appropriate" female behavior Moving Targets is must reading for anyone concerned with violence and representations of women in our culture. About the AuthorHelen Birch has been a literary editor, freelance journalist and writer, as well as an editor for the Guardian, Independent and New Statesman & Society. She lives in Cambridge.

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