When She Was Bad: How and Why Women Get Away with Murder
Mar 2011 · Sold by Vintage Canada
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In this provocative book, award-winning journalist Patricia Pearson argues that our culture is in denial of women's innate capacity for aggression. We don't believe that women batter their husbands or abuse the majority of children in North America. We ignore the 200 percent increase in crime by women in a period when most crime statistics are dropping. Pearson weaves the stories of women such as Karla Homolka and Mary Beth Tinning (who smothered eight of her children) with the results of criminologists and psychiatrists to expose the myth of female innocence.
In this provocative book, award-winning journalist Patricia Pearson argues that our culture is in denial of women's innate capacity for aggression. We don't believe that women batter their husbands or abuse the majority of children in North America. We ignore the 200 percent increase in crime by ...
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Patricia Pearson is a wife, mother and writer, who has won two National Magazine Awards, a National Author’s Award, and the Arthur Ellis Award for best true crime for When She Was Bad. Her first novel in the life of Frannie Mackenzie, Playing House, was nominated for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. Her non-fiction book, Area Woman Blows Gasket: and Other Tales from the Domestic Frontier will is published by Vintage Canada, and simultaneously in the U.S.
Patricia Pearson is a wife, mother and writer, who has won two National Magazine Awards, a National Author’s Award, and the Arthur Ellis Award for best true crime for When She Was Bad. Her first novel in the life of Frannie Mackenzie, Playing House, was nominated for the Stephen Leacock Medal for...
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