Fatal Women: Lesbian Sexuality and the Mark of Aggression

by Lynda Hart

Book Overview

In this major contribution to lesbian theory/cultural studies, Lynda Hart analyzes the way violent women have been represented in literature, plays, film, and performance. Starting from the historical link between criminality and sexual deviancy, Hart builds a complex and original theory in which the shadow of the lesbian animates representations of violent women from the Victorian novel to the recent proliferation of films depicting women who kill...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069100093X
• ISBN13: 9780691000930
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.8" x 10.0"