Fatal Women: Lesbian Sexuality and the Mark of Aggression

A groundbreaking and provocative look at how violent women have been represented in literature, plays, film, and performance

Fatal Women builds a complex and original theory of how the shadow of the lesbian animates representations of violent women, from the Victorian novel to films depicting women who kill. Starting from the historical link between criminality and sexual deviancy, Lynda Hart critiques constructions of gender, race, class, sexualities, and the cultural politics of the 1990s....