The subject of murder : gender, exceptionality, and the modern killer / Lisa Downing.

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.

viii, 241 pages ; 24 cm

Murder and gender in the European nineteenth century -- "Real murderer and false poet": Pierre-François Lacenaire -- The "angel of arsenic": Marie Lafarge -- The beast in man: Jack and the rippers who came after -- The twentieth-century Anglo-American killer -- "Infanticidal" femininity: Myra Hindley -- "Monochrome man": Dennis Nilsen -- Serial killing and the dissident woman: Aileen Wuornos -- Kids who kill: defying the stereotype of the murderer -- By way of brief conclusion.

Includes bibliographical references and index.