When She Was Bad: Violent Women and the Myth of Innocence by Patricia Pearson

When She Was Bad: Violent Women and the Myth of Innocence

Patricia Pearson

304 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history true crime challenging informative slow-paced
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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 ...

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