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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
I received an ARC copy of this book from Edelweiss
This book seems to have very mixed reviews from the Spanish edition but I found it to be very interesting and informative. I'm not familiar with any of the women discussed and haven't heard about these crimes before so I can't speak to whether all the information is accurate but it seemed to a very well written and well researched book and I liked how the author put the murders into a larger social context both of when they were committed and also the author's own experience when she was trying to research and write the book. It's obviously a much darker subject matter but I think if you enjoyed Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O'Meara you would be interested in this since the author has a similar style of talking about the process of researching the book within the book itself to make things a bit more relatable.
This book seems to have very mixed reviews from the Spanish edition but I found it to be very interesting and informative. I'm not familiar with any of the women discussed and haven't heard about these crimes before so I can't speak to whether all the information is accurate but it seemed to a very well written and well researched book and I liked how the author put the murders into a larger social context both of when they were committed and also the author's own experience when she was trying to research and write the book. It's obviously a much darker subject matter but I think if you enjoyed Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O'Meara you would be interested in this since the author has a similar style of talking about the process of researching the book within the book itself to make things a bit more relatable.
A really well executed study on four women who were convicted killers in Chile. Alia's detail and her synopsis of all of the research she has done on the women, of their treatment by their government, by the prison system, by their society--it really paints a picture of injustice and highlights the systemic oppressions and domestic abuse that lead to the killings, only to be further subjugated to public displays of mockery, abuse, torture, and for their stories to be turned into lies and fairytales. If you are looking for a concise true crime case-study, this is the book for you.
Cada historia mejor que la anterior. Tremendo trabajo de investigación, con reflexiones muy inteligentes y necesarias, no sólo para feministas, sino para toda la sociedad.
Con este libro, la autora amplía y complejiza la idea (que al menos yo tenía) de escribir "con perspectiva feminista".
Sólo hubo un par de cosas que me quedaron dando vueltas y no logré entender a cabalidad (por ejemplo: ¿Qué onda la historia del comienzo del último capítulo? ¿Era ficción? ¿Era una declaración real?). Si se explicaron, creo que no fue lo suficientemente claro, aunque también está la posibilidad de que me faltó una lectura más atenta. De todas formas, me entretuvo y me encantó.
Con este libro, la autora amplía y complejiza la idea (que al menos yo tenía) de escribir "con perspectiva feminista".
Sólo hubo un par de cosas que me quedaron dando vueltas y no logré entender a cabalidad (por ejemplo: ¿Qué onda la historia del comienzo del último capítulo? ¿Era ficción? ¿Era una declaración real?). Si se explicaron, creo que no fue lo suficientemente claro, aunque también está la posibilidad de que me faltó una lectura más atenta. De todas formas, me entretuvo y me encantó.
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.5⭐
le doy 3.5 pero igual esta más cerca de 4.
Al principio me costó tomar el ritmo pero dentro de los cuatro casos vistos el que me pareció más interesante y reflexioné bastante fue con el de Teresa.
le doy 3.5 pero igual esta más cerca de 4.
Al principio me costó tomar el ritmo pero dentro de los cuatro casos vistos el que me pareció más interesante y reflexioné bastante fue con el de Teresa.
#readtheworld Chile (4)
I wanted this to be better. I love true crime. I love feminism. I've heard great things about Trabucco Zeran's writing. But this fell short.
While this book explores the cases of four different female murderers in Chile during the 20th century, the author's main focus seems to be on the media portrayal of these cases. She seems to be hammering her thesis so hard that she loses sight of the actual cases being presented. While discussing how culture minimizes women's roles in society, the author herself minimizes the individuals she presents by staying so focused on making them fit her narrative. Granted, I'm sure there was minimal source material in the national archives with which she could work. However, I felt her arguments were so circuitous and repetetive that the book ultimately strayed from its purpose.
I wanted this to be better. I love true crime. I love feminism. I've heard great things about Trabucco Zeran's writing. But this fell short.
While this book explores the cases of four different female murderers in Chile during the 20th century, the author's main focus seems to be on the media portrayal of these cases. She seems to be hammering her thesis so hard that she loses sight of the actual cases being presented. While discussing how culture minimizes women's roles in society, the author herself minimizes the individuals she presents by staying so focused on making them fit her narrative. Granted, I'm sure there was minimal source material in the national archives with which she could work. However, I felt her arguments were so circuitous and repetetive that the book ultimately strayed from its purpose.
I was hooked on this one. Not only was I utterly captivated by the way she retells each murder, but I was constantly driven into deep contemplation by her clear and direct ability to unpack everything else surrounding the murders- perspectives of newspaper articles, lawyers & magistrates, society; female violence & its threat to womanhood “norms”; the history of wildly illogical perceptions of women, and their shaping of governmental workings. Wow, wow, wow. Badass book here.
informative
slow-paced
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Sexism, Dementia, Death of parent, Murder
i can't find my first update for this. so annoying. was something along the lines of appreciating the author putting these crimes in their social/legal contexts but it was a bit slow.
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we're getting a lot of the same analysis as we did for corina rojas; feminism in chile is terrible in the 1920s, men think women are inherently evil + that they always kill out of jealously yet almost don't believe they could ever do it without an accomplice. i guess faundez' case could demonstrate that that perception remains even when women kill in self defence? not sure. still liking tho
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teresa alfaro's case and the epilogue really pulled this work together for me and took this book from a 3.5 to a 4⭐ !!
i enjoy reading about different legal systems so much as a law grad so i found the epilogue so insanely interesting. the most prolific killers in chile pardoned because the system sees women as incapable of killing with malice and 'struck by jealousy' is just so insane. the first 3 women's stories felt a little boring, and i do not mean this in the sense that 'real life crimes aren't entertaining me', i mean in the sense the author went about putting them in their legal and social context. however, she really brought her analysis back round in the fourth part and her epilogue dives into the four parts as a collective representative of women killers in the chilean criminal justice system and she did such a great service to this. for that reason, it is worth the 4⭐, however i do wish it had been a little more consistent throughout.
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we're getting a lot of the same analysis as we did for corina rojas; feminism in chile is terrible in the 1920s, men think women are inherently evil + that they always kill out of jealously yet almost don't believe they could ever do it without an accomplice. i guess faundez' case could demonstrate that that perception remains even when women kill in self defence? not sure. still liking tho
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teresa alfaro's case and the epilogue really pulled this work together for me and took this book from a 3.5 to a 4⭐ !!
i enjoy reading about different legal systems so much as a law grad so i found the epilogue so insanely interesting. the most prolific killers in chile pardoned because the system sees women as incapable of killing with malice and 'struck by jealousy' is just so insane. the first 3 women's stories felt a little boring, and i do not mean this in the sense that 'real life crimes aren't entertaining me', i mean in the sense the author went about putting them in their legal and social context. however, she really brought her analysis back round in the fourth part and her epilogue dives into the four parts as a collective representative of women killers in the chilean criminal justice system and she did such a great service to this. for that reason, it is worth the 4⭐, however i do wish it had been a little more consistent throughout.