The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence

Stacy Banwell is Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Greenwich, UK. Lynsey Black is Assistant Professor in Criminology at Maynooth University, Ireland. Dawn K. Cecil is Professor of Criminology at the University of South Florida, USA. Yanyi K. Djamba is Adjunct Professor of Demography at California State University Sacramento, USA. Sitawa R. Kimuna is Professor of Sociology at East Carolina University, USA. Emma Milne is Associate Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at Durham University, UK. Lizzie Seal is Professor of Criminology at University of Sussex, UK. Eric Y. Tenkorang is Professor of Sociology at Memorial University, Canada.

Introduction; Stacy Banwell, Lynsey Black, Dawn K. Cecil, Yanyi K. Djamba, Sitawa R. Kimuna, Emma Milne, Lizzie Seal, and Eric Y Tenkorang

Historical Perspectives

Chapter 1. No Explanation Needed: Gendered Narratives of Violent Crime; Stephanie Emma Brown

Chapter 2. “A hard-working and nice person”? Respectability, Femininity, and Infanticide in England and Wales, 1800-2000; Daniel J.R. Grey

Chapter 3. The Voices of Violent Women in Nineteenth-Century Ireland; Elaine Farrell

Chapter 4. The Many Defences of Maria Barberi: Challenges to a Victim-Based Agency; Rian Sutton

Understanding Women’s Acts of Violence

Chapter 5. An Investigation of Forms and Drivers of Violence Perpetrated by Women in Lesotho: The case of Maseru Female Correctional Facility; Josphine Hapazari

Chapter 6. Bargaining with Patriarchy, Resisting Sisterarchy: Contextualising Women’s Participation in Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C); Emmaleena Käkelä

Chapter 7. Women with Intellectual Disabilities: Unraveling their Victim-Offender Status; Marta Codina, Diego A. Díaz-Faes, and Noemí Pereda

Chapter 8. Negotiating vulnerability: Contextualizing Nigerian female sex workers’ violence against male clients; Ediomo-Ubong Nelson and Tasha Ramirez

Women as Perpetrators of Interpersonal and Intimate Violence

Chapter 9. Domestic Abuse: Analysing Women’s Use of Violence; Leticia Couto

Chapter 10. Typology of Female Offenders in Intimate Partnerships – A Feminist Approach; Rebecca Gulowski

Chapter 11. Men’s Self-Reported Experiences of Women’s Controlling Behaviours and Intimate Partner Violence in Kenya; Eric Y. Tenkorang, Alice Pearl Sedziafa, and Sitawa R. Kimuna

Chapter 12. “She Ended Up Controlling Every Aspect of My Life”: Male Victims’ Narratives of Intimate Partner Abuse Perpetrated by Women; Alexandra Lysova and Kenzie Hanson

Power and Women’s Violence

Chapter 13. Obstetric Violence: A Form of Gender-Based Violence; Catarina Barata, Vânia Simões, and Francisca Soromenho

Chapter 14. By Any Other Name: The Difficulties of Recognising Female Police Violence; Michael Branch

Chapter 15. Women’s Violence in Armed Conflict: Toward Feminist Analysis and Response; Alexis Henshaw

Women and Non-State Political Violence

Chapter 16. Strategic Silences and Epistemic Resistance: Agency of Women Ex-Combatants in ‘Post-War’ Space; Keshab Giri

Chapter 17. The Representation of Women’s Involvement in (non-state) Political Violence: Dominant Myths and Narratives Surrounding “Radicalised” Women in the UK; Itoiz Rodrigo Jusué

Chapter 18. News Media Framing of Female Ex-combatants in a Post-conflict Society; Ashleigh McFeeters

Chapter 19. Feminists? Armed: Gender and The Question of Political Violence; Tammy Kovich

Chapter 20. With the Right to Kill, But Not to Lead: The Role of Women in the Spanish Terrorist Gang Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA); Claudia Mayordomo Zapata, Salvador Moreno Moreno, and José Miguel Rojo Martínez

Cultural Interpretations of Violent Women

Chapter 21. Online Discourses of Women’s Violence, Gender Equality and Societal Change; Satu Venäläinen

Chapter 22. Mental Illness/Distress in Representations of Maternal Filicide-Suicide: Silencing the Gendered Aetiologies of Violence; Denise Buiten

Chapter 23. Sad, Bad or Mad: The Denial of Agency to Women Who Kill; Belinda Morrissey

Chapter 24. ‘Evil Women’: Sexual Sadism and Murder in Britain, 1960s-1980s; Joanna Bourke

Fictional Representations of Violent Women

Chapter 25. Imagining Women’s Violence: The Femme Fatale; Katherine Farrimond

Chapter 26. Killing Eve: Television Violence as Liberation?; Rosie White

Chapter 27. Not Afraid to Kill: The First Female Literary Detective in Bengali Crime Fiction; Shampa Roy

Chapter 28. “Returning to Destroy Your World”: A Transhistorical Approach to Cultural Constructions of the Female Revenger; Stevie Simkin

Chapter 29. Women’s Violence in Tamil Mega Serials; Premalatha Karupiah

Chapter 30. Feminist Perspectives on Rape-Revenge and Necroempowerment in Narcotelenovelas and B Movies; Gabrielle Pannetier Leboeuf and Anaïs Ornelas Ramirez

Violent Women and Girls in the Criminal Justice System

Chapter 31. Trends in Girls’ Delinquency in the United States; Meda Chesney-Lind

Chapter 32. The Importance of Language, Intersubjectivity and Recognition in Creating Space for Women’s Rehabilitation from Acts of Violence; Melanie Sheehan

Chapter 33. Female Incarceration and Criminal Selectivity: Reflections on Crime Committed by Women in Brazil; Carmen Hein de Campos and Cristina Rego de Oliveira

Chapter 34. Violence and Systemic Injustice: The Effects of Colonialism and Neoliberalism on the Overrepresentation of Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada’s Criminal Justice System; Becky Ratero Greenberg and Maéva Thibeault