In this fascinating book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women who killâand the political, economic, social and sexual implications buried with each victim.
How many of us are even remotely prepared to imagine our mothers, daughters, sisters or grandmothers as fiendish killers? For centuries we have been conditioned to think of serial murderers and psychopathic predators as menâwith women registering low on our paranoia radar. Perhaps thatâs why so many trusting husbands, lovers, family friends, and children have fallen prey to âthe female monster.â
From historyâs earliest recorded cases of homicidal females to Irma Grese, the Nazi Beast of Belsen, from Britainâs notorious child-slayer Myra Hindley to âHoneymoon Killerâ Martha Beck to the sensational cult of Aileen Wournosâthe first female serial killer-as-celebrityâto cult killers, homicidal missionaries, and our pop-culture fascination with the sexy femme fatale, Vronsky not only challenges our ordinary standards of good and evil but also defies our basic accepted perceptions of gender role and identity.
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