Subject of Murder Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer - Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer

Informationen zum Autor Lisa Downing is professor of French discourses of sexuality at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. She is the author of numerous books including Desiring the Dead: Necrophilia and Nineteenth-Century French Literature , The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault , and coauthor of Film and Ethics: Foreclosed Encounters . Klappentext The subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. In this title, the author explores the ways in which the figure of the murderer has been made to signify a specific kind of social subject in Western modernity. Zusammenfassung The subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. In this title! the author explores the ways in which the figure of the murderer has been made to signify a specific kind of social subject in Western modernity.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Downing, Prof. Lisa Downing, Downing Lisa, Lisa Downing
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.03.2013
• EAN: 9780226003542
• ISBN: 978-0-226-00354-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Social groups, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Social groups, communities and identities