Started: 8/19/06
Finished: 8/29/06
Year: 1981
Genre: Sociology/True Crime
Grade: A
Reason for reading: picked it up at a used book store in VT-I enjoy true crime and thought that this would be a good book to read.
Blurb (from back cover): "When battered and abused women began to fight back-and kill-men began to fear that this would become an epidemic. Some felt that women were getting away with murder. But were they? They were not. In fact, in many cases their punishment was harsher than that of men.
"But this book is much more than a description of battered women who kill in self-defense. It is a social history and a fascinating story of women on the edge of society-women driven to kill for a multitude of reasons. Here are tales of crime and punsihment that reveal hard truths about American society and women's place in it."
Opinion: One of the best books I've read this year. Very detailed history of women who have murdered others and the punishments that they were forced to serve. Also contains some feminist history of how many women fought to get equal punishments for the same crime as men. I highly recommend it.
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