When she was bad : violent women & the myth of innocence / Patricia Pearson.
TITLE:
When she was bad : violent women & the myth of innocence / Patricia Pearson.
Alternate Title:
When she was bad : violent women and the myth of innocence
Publication Date:
1997
Publication Information:
Toronto : Random House of Canada,
Physical Description:
288 p.
Summary:
Our culture, argues award-winning journalist Patricia Pearson, is in denial of women's innate capacity for aggression. We deny that women batter their husbands. We forget that the statistics prove that children in America are abused mostly by women. We ignore the 200 percent increase in crime by women during a period in which most crime statistics are dropping. Instead, we transform female violence into victimhood by citing PMS, battered wife syndrome, postpartum depression as the sources of women's actions. When She Was Bad tells the stories of such women.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780394224305
