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Cover image for book L’Acte inqualifiable, ou le meurtre au féminin / Unspeakable Acts: Murder by Women

L’Acte inqualifiable, ou le meurtre au féminin / Unspeakable Acts: Murder by Women

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Publisher:Peter Lang
Print ISBN:9782875743640
eText ISBN:9782807600164
Edition:1
Format:Reflowable

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Qu’elle soit appelée meurtrière, assassine ou tueuse, la femme qui commet un homicide élude les catégories usuelles : elle dérange l’ordre social, bouleverse les rapports de forces symboliques et inquiète les dispositifs judiciaires. Cet ouvrage collectif bilingue (français et anglais) interroge la manière dont l’écriture ou la réécriture du meurtre au féminin contribue à façonner et à problématiser la mémoire collective de ces affaires criminelles qui font figure d’exception. Female murderers often elude firmly established categories as they disrupt the social and symbolic orders of patriarchal societies and call into question the well-oiled mechanisms of their legal systems. This collection of essays (in French and in English) examines the making of narratives that have staged actual or fictional female murderers, influencing the ways in which these women are collectively remembered – narratives that often lay bare the covert foundations of the indictment process.

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