Women, Crime and Language

Informationen zum Autor FRANCES GRAY is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Drama at the University of Sheffield. She has lectured at Allegheny College, Pennsylvania, and at the University of Lodz. Her previous books include John Arden , Noel Coward and Women and Laughter . She is also a playwright for both the stage and radio and holds two Radio Times Awards. Klappentext Women, Crime and Language examines the relationships between discourses of crime and gender: how women are represented in fiction and reportage, and how they have represented themselves. Frances Gray explores a number of high-profile cases from the Whitechapel Murders of 1888 to the Children's Home scandals of the present day, in which women have featured as victims, perpetrators or investigators. The author tracks the representation of women through detective stories, plays and novels. Zusammenfassung Women, Crime and Language examines the relationships between discourses of crime and gender: how women are represented in fiction and reportage, and how they have represented themselves. Frances Gray explores a number of high-profile cases from the Whitechapel Murders of 1888 to the Children's Home scandals of the present day, in which women have featured as victims, perpetrators or investigators. The author tracks the representation of women through detective stories, plays and novels. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction in Four Scenes Condemned Woman Guilty Victims? Speaking Victims Survivor Stories Picture of Infamy Nanny State Cruel Mother Writing the Dead Afterword Bibliography

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Acknowledgements Introduction in Four Scenes Condemned Woman Guilty Victims? Speaking Victims Survivor Stories Picture of Infamy Nanny State Cruel Mother Writing the Dead Afterword Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: F Gray, F. Gray, Frances Gray
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9781349513055
• ISBN: 978-1-349-51305-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Fiction & related items, Fiction, Criminology, Gender studies, gender groups, Crime & criminology, European Literature, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, crime;fiction;novel;women