When Women Kill by Alia Trabucco Zerán
Four Crimes Retold
A hybrid of true crime and cultural critique, this book revisits four notorious cases of women accused of murder in Chile, reconstructing them from court files, press clippings, and archival traces to show how gender, class, and politics shape the stories told about female violence. It interrogates the labels—monster, mother, seductress—deployed by institutions and the media, revealing the anxieties and biases behind those narratives. The result is a sharp inquiry into the gap between events and their retellings, and into the power structures that decide which version of a crime becomes truth.
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- Published
- 2019
- Nationality
- Chilean
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 208-240
- Original Language
- Spanish
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- Alternate Titles
- - Las homicidas
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