Critical Condition - Amy Scholder
Women on the Edge of Violence
KORTE INHOUD
While Aileen Wournos, the alleged female serial killer who insists she killed in self-defense, sits on death row, Hollywood filmmakers appropriate her story. Meanwhile, in our perverse justice system the sexual assaults and murders of forty-five women in San Diego are discounted by police and given file code name NHI, No Humans Involved, because the victims are perceived as marginal: sex workers, informants, homeless or working class women. The women in Critical Condition challenge abuse and invisibility with powerful literary and visual art. They put a spin on issues of women and violence by focusing on women won fight back, sometimes killing their abusers; women who control their own sexualities and challenge conventional ideas of sex; women who assert images of themselves in a cultural landscape where none appear; women who reframe personal histories that were meant to shame them into oblivion. Critical Condition includes Carla Kirkwood's autobiographical performance monologue about a girl, sexually ab...
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1993Uitgever: City Lights Books220 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0872862852ISBN-13: 9780872862852Helaas, laatste exemplaar van deze editie is recent verkocht!
