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Wednesday, 25 November 2009
The Seven Deadly Narratives of Women Criminals
In Media and Crime, Yvonne Jewkes identifies seven standard narratives to describe women who commit serious crimes
These are:
• Sexuality and sexual deviance
• (Absence of) physical attractiveness
• Bad wives
• Bad mothers
• Mythical monsters
• Mad cows
• Evil manipulators
Which just about covers everything (with the exception of Bad Mother) Amanda Knox has been accused of in Italy - more on the Amanda Knox trial in Will Knox find Justice in Perugia? .
The above taken from Ashley Tya Austin's dissertation, The Denial of Agency.
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