Description
The sexualized serial murder of women by men is the subject of this provocative book. Jane Caputi argues that the sensationalized murders by men such as Jack the Ripper, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler, and the Yorkshire Ripper represent a contemporary genre of sexually political crimes. The awful deeds function as a form of patriarchal terrorism, disappearing women at a rate of some four thousand annually in the United States alone.
Caputi asks us not only to name the phenomenon of sexually political murder, but to recognize sex crime in all of its various interconnecting manifestations."
Author: Aeschylus
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 06/15/1987
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780299306342
ISBN10: 0299306348
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | Ancient & Classical
- Literary Criticism | Ancient and Classical
- History | Ancient | Greece
Caputi asks us not only to name the phenomenon of sexually political murder, but to recognize sex crime in all of its various interconnecting manifestations."
Author: Aeschylus
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 06/15/1987
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780299306342
ISBN10: 0299306348
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | Ancient & Classical
- Literary Criticism | Ancient and Classical
- History | Ancient | Greece
About the Author
David Mulroy is a professor emeritus of classics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His translations of The Complete Poetry of Catullus and of Sophocles' Theban trilogy--Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and Oedipus at Colonus--are all published by the University of Wisconsin Press.