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Gurian, Elizabeth Anne. "Serial and single-incident acts of murder : an exploration of women's solo and partnered offending." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610673.
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Tock, Annie. ""I see by this woman's features, that she is capable of any wickedness" : murderous women, public justice, and the social order in London, 1674-1799 /." View online, 2008. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131425320.pdf.
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McCurdy, Marian Lea. "Women Murder Women: Case Studies in Theatre and Film." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Theatre and Film Studies, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1938.
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This thesis looks at two cases of women who murdered women - the Papin sisters (Le Mans, 1933) and Parker-Hulme (Christchurch, 1954) - and considers their diverse representations in theatre and film, paying particular attention to Jean Genet’s play The Maids (1947), Peter Jackson’s film Heavenly Creatures (1994) and Peter Falkenberg’s film Remake (2007), in which I played a part. What happens when two women (sisters, girl friends) commit violent acts together - not against a man, or a child, but against another woman, a mother or (as in the case of the Papin sisters) against women symbolically standing in place of the mother? How are these two cases - the Papin sisters and Parker-Hulme - presented in historical documents, reinterpreted in political, psychoanalytic and feminist theories, and represented in theatre and film? How might these works of theatre and film, in particular, be seen to explain - or exploit - these cases for an audience? How is the relationship between prurience - the peeping at women doing something bad - and the use of these cases to produce social commentary and/or art, better understood by looking at these objects of fascination ourselves? My thesis explores how these cases continue to interest and inspire artists and intellectuals, as well as the general public - both because they can be seen to violate fundamental social taboos against mother-murder and incest, and because of the challenge they pose for representation in theatre or film.
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Hill, Alexandra Nicole. ""Bloudy tygrisses" murderous women in early modern English drama and popular literature /." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002727.
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Crosby, Sara Lynn. "Poisonous mixtures : gender, race, empire, and cultural authority in antebellum female poisoner literature /." Notre Dame, Indiana : Universoty of Notre Dame, 2005. http://etd.nd.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-06202005-105725/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2005.Thesis directed by Sandra Gustafson for the Department of English. "June 2005." Thesis also available in PDF file via the Internet. Access may be restricted or require Notre Dame logon. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 330-350).
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Venegas, Maria Guadalupe. "Self-perceptions of women who kill." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1141.
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Naydenova, Pavleta. "Underworld Celebrities, Female Murderers and Light-Fingered Eves: Representations of Sydney Criminal Women 1920-1939." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14419.
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This dissertation is a study of Sydney criminal women in the context of the 1920s and 1930s. It examines the cases of notorious female criminals, murderers and minor offenders in relation to social changes at the time. To understand conceptions and reactions to female transgressors, the dissertation engages with discourses on female criminals and examines representations of criminal women in press reports and parliamentary debates from the interwar period. Depictions of female offenders are indicative of broader social changes and social concerns about women at the time. The struggle to understand and manage the threat of the female criminal reflects the struggle to consolidate modern ideas of femininity with the ideal of womanhood and define women’s position in society.
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Barganski, Jenna Leigh. "Giving the Noose the Slip: an Analysis of Female Murderers in Oregon, 1854-1950." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4542.
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Analyzing the crimes of women murderers and how they fared in the criminal justice system demonstrates that though perceptions of gender evolved, resistance to sentencing women to death often persisted. The nature of homicides committed by women in Oregon set them apart from their male counterparts. Women were, and are, more likely to commit domestic homicides -- murders that involve a family member or partner. These crimes are typically not equated with crimes that warrant capital punishment. As a result, no woman has been subjected to the death penalty in the state.
This thesis analyzes the twenty-five women who were convicted of homicide in Oregon between 1854 and 1950. During these years the majority faced all-male court and penal systems. As such, they were handled differently in accordance with various social, cultural, and legislative shifts relating to women's roles as citizens. Through an examination of contemporary newspaper articles, inmate case files, and other Oregon State Penitentiary records, this thesis studies three distinct periods relating to these shifts: 1854-1900, 1901-1935 and 1936-1950.
The assumption that it was impossible for a woman to commit murder linked claims of insanity with criminality. The six women defendants between 1854 and 1900 were either deemed insane and transferred to the asylum or quickly released from prison to avoid potential controversy or additional expense. The twelve women convicted of homicide between 1901 and 1935 all received manslaughter convictions, an occurrence unique to this era. Following the Progressive Era, sentimental juries felt more comfortable convicting women of manslaughter. Many received indeterminate sentences of one to fifteen years and were released on parole.
The initial first-degree murder charges between 1936 and 1950 signaled a new period in the treatment of women charged with homicide. After gaining the right to vote and serve on juries, women began to be viewed more equally in the eyes of the law. During these years there was a more even distribution of manslaughter, second-degree murder, and first-degree murder convictions for the seven women defendants. This is due in part to women's growing presence in the public sphere.
In conclusion, the idea that women were submissive creatures that required the authority and protection of men in the courtroom began to fade by 1950. Each period of study demonstrates how the contemporary perception of women and their roles as citizens affected trial outcomes. However, even when women were charged with first-degree murder they were not sentenced to the death penalty -- likely due to the domestic nature of their crimes.
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郭淑慧 and Suk-wai Francisca Kwok. "The newspaper constructions of female homicide offenders in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31227466.
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Scher, Ingrid Lana Law Faculty of Law UNSW. "Monsters in our minds : the myth of infanticide and the murderous mother in the cultural psyche." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Law, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/29377.
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If, as author Toni Morrison believes, we tell stories about what we find most terrifying, then our cultural narratives suggest an overwhelming preoccupation with the murderous mother ??? the monster in our minds. This dissertation examines some of the most powerful and enduring stories told about the murderous mother and considers how these stories are shaped by the unconscious fears and fantasies that dominate the cultural psyche. Revolving around the idea of infanticide as an ???imaginary??? crime, this dissertation uncovers the psychoanalytic foundations of the obsessive telling and consumption of stories of maternal child-murder in Western culture and contends that infanticide narratives can be read as symptoms of psychocultural dis(-)ease. Underlying all stories about the murderous mother is an unconscious fear of infanticide and fantasy of maternal destructiveness that is repressed in the individual psyche. These fears and fantasies are expressed in our cultural narratives. Chapter 1 examines fairytales as the literary form that most clearly elaborates individual fears and psychic conflict and locates the phantasmic murderous mother within psychoanalytic narratives of individuation. Chapter 2 shows how individual fears and fantasies of maternal monstrosity are transferred to society and revealed in the myths through which our culture is transmitted. Chapters 3 and 4 focus on the particular neuroses of ancient Greek society and early modern culture and consider stories of the murderous mother that most powerfully reflect anxieties of maternal origin and fantasies of maternal power. Chapters 5 and 6 shift to a contemporary setting and consider stories that reveal, in differing ways, how the murderous mother haunts the cultural psyche. Examining a variety of texts and drawing material from a spectrum of disciplines, including law, literature, criminology, theology, philosophy, and medicine, this dissertation concludes that it is only by exposing the underpinnings of our cultural stories about the murderous mother that we can hope to break free from the unconscious attitudes that imprison us. Emerging from this study is an original and important theoretical framework concerning conceptualisations of infanticide, the ways in which we imagine maternal child-murder and the limits of that imagination, and how we might escape the murderous maternal monster buried deep in the labyrinths of the mind.
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Barnstable, Rachel N. "Women's organizational response to gender violence and femicide in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico." Ohio : Ohio University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1237480001.
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Eriksson, Marie. "Victim or murderer? : Discourse, representation & stereotypes in true crime." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-42417.
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This study explores the true crime documentary Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story and aims to investigate the protagonist Cyntoia Brown in relation to how her character and story is represented. Due to the consistent rise of awareness in equal rights, as well as the steady increase of black representation in popular television, one might think that it would reflect positively in mass media. Although there have been few changes to representation, the findings that are to be presented suggest otherwise. Narratives within television still heavily relies on stereotyping and following societal norms, which this study desires to expose through a discourse analysis.
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Hill, Alexandra. "BLOUDY TYGRISSES": MURDEROUS WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA AND POPULAR LITERATURE." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2281.
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This thesis examines artistic and literary images of murderous women in popular print published in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. The construction of murderous women in criminal narratives, published between 1558 and 1625 in pamphlet, ballad, and play form, is examined in the context of contemporary historical records and cultural discourse. Chapter One features a literature review of the topic in recent scholarship. Chapter Two, comprised of two subsections, discusses representations of early modern women in contemporary literature and criminal archives. The subsections in Chapter Two examine early modern treatises, sermons, and essays concerning the nature of women, the roles and responsibilities of wives and mothers, and debates about marriage, as well as a review of women tried for murder in the Middlesex assize courts between 1558 and 1625. Chapter Three, comprised of four subsections, engages in critical readings of approximately 52 pamphlets, ballads, and plays published in the same period. Individual subsections discuss how traitorous wives, murderous mothers, women who murder in their communities, and punishment and redemption are represented in the narratives. Woodcut illustrations printed in these texts are also examined, and their iconographic contributions to the construction of bad women is discussed. Women who murder in these texts are represented as consummately evil creatures capable of inflicting terrible harm to their families and communities, and are consistently discovered, captured, and executed by their communities for their heinous crimes. Murderous women in early modern popular literature also provided a means for contemporary men and women to explore, confront, and share in the depths of sin, while anticipating their own spiritual salvation. Pamphlets, plays, and broadsides related bawdy, graphic, and violent stories that allow modern readers a glimpse of the popular culture and mental world of Renaissance England.M.A.
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Crumpton, Emily M. "Murder Becomes Her: Media Representations of Murderous Women in America from 1890-1920." DigitalCommons@USU, 2017. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6634.
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This thesis explores the relationship between the media, murderous women, and the concept of separate spheres. Murderous women challenged established gender norms. They did not conform to the societal expectations of their gender, therefore, they were not considered “normal.” As such, women like Alice Mitchell, Jane Toppan, and Amy Archer Gilligan became objects of media, medical, and public curiosity. As defined by medical science and society, newspapers policed the boundaries of “normality” by sensationalizing the lives, actions, and trials of deadly damsels. Newspaper coverage of murderous women reminded the public of the consequences of “abnormality” and non-conformity. This thesis argues that sensationalized stories of lethal ladies between 1890 and 1920 shaped public perceptions of gender, crime, mental illness, and substantiated the perceived “need” for separate spheres. Furthermore, it gives a voice to a group of historical women who existed on the fringes of society.
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Sharp, Ann D. Carleton University Dissertation Social Work. "Personalizing the political : the "Morningside" letters and the impact of the 1989 Montreal woman murders on preventing male violence against women." Ottawa, 1990.
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Pearce, Maryanne. "An Awkward Silence: Missing and Murdered Vulnerable Women and the Canadian Justice System." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26299.
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The murders and suspicious disappearances of women across Canada over the past forty years have received considerable national attention in the past decade. The disappearances and murders of scores of women in British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba have highlighted the vulnerability of women to extreme violence. Girls and women of Aboriginal ethnicity have been disproportionally affected in all of these cases and have high rates of violent victimization. The current socio-economic situation faced by Aboriginal women contributes to this.
To provide publicly available data of missing and murdered women in Canada, a database was created containing details of 3,329 women, including 824 who are Aboriginal. There are key risk factors that increase the probability of experiencing lethal violence: street prostitution, addiction and insecure housing. The vast majority of sex workers who experience lethal violence are street prostitutes. The dissertation examines the legal status and forms of prostitution in Canada and internationally, as well as the individual and societal impacts of prostitution. A review of current research on violence and prostitution is presented. The thesis provides summaries from 150 serial homicide cases targeting prostitutes in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. The trends and questions posed by these cases are identified.
The cases of the missing women of Vancouver and Robert Pickton are detailed. The key findings from the provincial inquiry into the missing women cases and an analysis of the most egregious failings of the investigations (Projects Amelia and Evenhanded) are discussed. Frequently encountered challenges and common errors, as well as investigative opportunities and best practices of police, and other initiatives and recommendations aimed at non-police agencies are evaluated. The three other RCMP-led projects, KARE, DEVOTE and E-PANA, which are large, dedicated units focused on vulnerable women, are assessed.
All Canadian women deserve to live free of violence. For women with vulnerable life histories, violence is a daily threat and a common occurrence. More must be done to prevent violence and to hold offenders responsible when violence has been done. This dissertation is a plea for resources and attention; to turn apathy into pragmatic, concrete action founded on solid evidence-based research.
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Bychutsky, Rebecca. "Social Denial: An Analysis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36494.
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Understood sociologically, denial is best conceptualized as a social practice. As a phenomenon, social denial refers to patterned behaviour where actors both know and do not-know about uncomfortable truths (Cohen, 2001). Put simply, social denial is a socially reproduced blindness in the face of traumatic events and processes. In opposition to social denial is a different social practice, bearing witness. Bearing witness is engaged when society’s actors give voice to those who would otherwise be silent. Drawing on theoretical frameworks from Stanley Cohen’s work States of Denial and Fujiko Kurasawa’s work Global Justice, this thesis aims to critically reflect and explore the registers and mechanisms of both social denial and bearing witness. The
exploration of social denial is sociologically relevant, and generally important, as a means for understanding the role it plays in society, and to further understanding what social denial is and how it works. The better actors understand an issue the more capable they are of addressing it. This thesis conducts a media frame analysis of selected published articles from the National Post and the Globe and Mail that speak to the issue of MMIWG. This analysis reveals social denial through the frames “culpable victim”, “poster child”, and “the extra”; and bearing witness through the frame of the “honourable victim”. The analysis and research of this thesis reveal how
social denial covers up the relevance of colonialism with respect to MMIWG. Furthermore, it suggests that social denial acts to both camouflage the gritty details underlying MMIWG and erase the identities of MMIWG.
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Ancil, Gabriel Sy. "Canada, the Perpetrator| The Legacy of Systematic Violence and the Contemporary Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls." Thesis, Indiana University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10810845.
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Canada has a long history of perpetrating violence and discrimination against Indigenous peoples, especially women. State policies and practices have systematically disenfranchised Indigenous women through mechanisms of displacement, assimilation, and marginalization. More than a century of large-scale intersectional violence has embedded complex intergenerational trauma into Indigenous families, further heightening their vulnerability. The “public face of law” has institutionalized the State endorsement of individual executioners of violence against Indigenous women. For decades, Indigenous peoples and human rights organizations have urged the State to recognize its active role in the violence and launch a public national inquiry. This thesis seeks to highlight the culpability of the State in the contemporary crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls while reasserting the power of the Indigenous woman. My argument is that in order to restore Indigenous women to their rightful place of power and equality in society, the State must both acknowledge and take responsibility for its crimes.
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Haslam, Hannah. "WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE OFFENDER IS A WOMAN? DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FEMALE OFFENDER RELATED TO GENDER REPRESENTATIONS." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-25497.
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De föreställningar om kvinnan som finns idag är alla konstruerade av samhället vi lever i och den interaktion som sker oss människor emellan. När en kvinna går över gränsen för den norm en kvinna anses ha anses hon ofta som onormal och avvikande. När en kvinna intar platsen i en rättssal som tilltalad istället för offer är det intressant att se hur aktörerna i domstolen beskriver kvinnan och hennes brottsgärning. Syftet för denna uppsats var att undersöka vilka beskrivningar om kvinnan som uttrycks i domar från brottsmålsrättegångar gällande dråp och mord i Sverige. Det var sedan av intresse att se om dessa beskrivningar kunde relateras till olika genusföreställningar. Metoden för studien utgick från en kvalitativ ansats och använde sig av en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Genom att läsa materialet undersöktes sedan texten noga för att urskilja kategorier i texten som sedan visade olika teman relevanta för ämnet. Analysen resulterade i tre teman: Kvinnan som offer, Kvinnan som normbrytare och Kvinnan som känslostyrd. Resultaten visade att det fanns genusrelaterade beskrivningar av kvinnan. Förväntningarna för arbetet var att beskrivningarna relaterade till genusföreställningarna skulle visa sig tydligt. Dock visade resultatet att domstolarna var mer objektiva än förväntat.The idea of the woman that exist today are all constructed by the society that we live in and by the interaction between people. When a woman passes the line of the norm of which the woman is supposed to follow, she's often seen as abnormal and deviant. When a woman takes the place as the accused rather than the victim in the courtroom, it is interesting to see how the players of the court describe the woman and her criminal acts. The purpose of this paper was to examine the descriptions of women as expressed in the judgments of the criminal proceedings regarding manslaughter and murder in Sweden. The interest was then to see if these descriptions could be related to different gender representations. The methodology for the study was based on a qualitative approach and used a qualitative content analysis. The material was then carefully examined to distinguish various categories that could later on show themes relevant to the topic. The analysis resulted in three main themes: the woman as a victim, the woman as the norm breaker and the woman as emotionally driven. The results showed that gender related descriptions of the woman existed. The expectations of the study was that the descriptions related to gender representations would be clearly shown in the judgements. However, the results showed that the courts were more objective than expected.
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Kjellman, Wall Maria. "Death becomes her. Journalistic portrayals of murdered women and their bodies as subject, object and abject in Swedish high profile murder cases." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-169719.
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This thesis concerns how murdered women and their bodies are represented through written and visual language in tabloid crime journalism. Two Swedish high profile murders were chosen through a purposeful sampling, and 436 articles from Sweden's two largest tabloid newspapers, Aftonbladet and Expressen, were thematized through Thematic Analysis. After that, a smaller sample was analyzed in depth through Critical Discourse Analysis and Multimodal Visual Analysis. The results show that murdered women and their bodies are represented as both subjects, objects and abject. However, when constructed as a social subject through personal traits and agency, the personalities of the murdered women were also used to establish a normative objectification of how women ought and ought not to behave. Furthermore, the material body as an object was visually absent from the material but made visible through detailed and repetitive descriptions of violence and interdiscursive connections to popular culture. Consequently, the abject body produced fear within society, but also provided an arena for a shared identity and the restoration of social order, through extensive portrayals of public grief and thorough media coverage of the legal process. These results contribute both new knowledge and the suggestion of a suitable theoretical framework for further academic research. Hopefully, these findings will also result in an academic, as well as a professional, discussion regarding the current mediated discourse within crime journalism.
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Quintili, Aurora Elisabeth. "The singular type woman : En narratologisk och genusteoretisk analys av Shirley Jacksons ”The Honeymoon of Mrs Smith (Version II): The Mystery of the Murdered Bride”." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-54202.
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Efter Shirley Jacksons död år 1965 verkade allmänhetens uppmärksamhet gentemot hennes litterära produktion avta. Idag kan vi däremot observera ett kraftigt ökat intresse för hennes författarskap och de tematiker som behandlas, det vill säga kvinnans isolering, de sociala normernas inflytande på den mänskliga erfarenheten och ödets obarmhärtighet. Denna uppsats fokuserar på den postumt utgivna novellen med titeln ”The Honeymoon of Mrs Smith (Version II): The Mystery of the Murdered Bride”. Syftet med denna uppsats är att belysa hur narratologiska strukturer återspeglar mönster och regelbundenheter som kan tolkas utifrån ett genusperspektiv. Här finns först ett intresse för att analysera den valda novellen utifrån Monika Fluderniks (1996, 2009) definition av berättelse och hennes teori om experientiality, vilket resulterar i en analys av novellens narratologiska struktur. Uppsatsens andra mål är att åskådliggöra hur berättelsens narratologiska struktur påvisar tecken av interna, fiktiva samhällsstrukturer som kan analyseras utifrån Yvonne Hirdmans (1988, 2001) genusteori. Denna kombinerade analys har slutligen som mål att belysa hur den mänskliga erfarenheten och dess agerande inom berättelsen påverkas av mönstereffekter och regelbundenheter som styr relationen mellan könen. Slutsatsen som dras här är att Fluderniks (1996, 2009) teori agerat som effektiv ingång till hur de olika elementen som formar den analyserade berättelsen samverkar för att ge upphov till de samhälleliga mönster och regelbundenheter som Hirdman (1988, 2001) beskriver och kritiserar. Kombinationen av narratologisk analys och genusteoretisk analys visade sig i slutändan vara effektiv för att belysa hur de samhälleliga dynamiker som styr relationen mellan könen inom berättelsen påverkar hur människorna inom den agerar.
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Robertson, Lauren. "‘Crimes of passion’ or ‘horrific murders’? A corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis of reporting on domestic and non-domestic violence in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Daily Telegraph." Thesis, Department of Linguistics, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21867.
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This dissertation examines the current state of print news reporting of violence against women (VAW) in Australia. Specifically, it examines how blame and responsibility is encoded in articles on domestic violence (DV) and non-domestic violence (NDV), and considers the flow on effect of this on attitudes and understandings of VAW amongst broader society. The data are from two Sydney newspapers, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Daily Telegraph. Six cases overall are investigated, three DV and three NDV, which create a small, specialised corpus of 54 texts. It uses the emerging technique of corpus-based CDA, combining corpus methods with computer-assisted ‘manual’ text analysis in order to examine how the victim, perpetrator and the act of violence (AOV) are portrayed. The analysis reveals how blame and responsibility is often encoded in texts through the activation or passivation of certain social actors and different naming practices of perpetrators of DV and NDV. This study contributes to existing research on representations of VAW in the media and is the first to analyse this issue specifically from a linguistic perspective within the Australian context. It is also perhaps one of the only corpus-based CDA studies on VAW in the media. Through this, it offers methodological innovations as well as important findings related to the depictions of VAW in news media.
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Acquaviva, Graziela. "Vítimas indiretas dos homicídios: testemunho de mulheres em São Paulo/SP." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2015. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/17722.
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Previous issue date: 2015-03-09This is a study about the impact of homicides in the indirect victims of these crimes, especially the family and among these, women. Starting from previous research results and records, performed in FAPESP Program of Public Policy, between 1998 and 2003, when it investigated the needs and demands of families with fatal victims and identified that 81% of respondents were women. From such data, and especially the social and political significance that is, considering the dominant gender perspective, where the house and the family are female. Daily exposure to violent territories pervades these houses and families and therefore women. Methodologically, the data were produced by reorganization of the evidence base, secondary in nature, consisting of digitized files of semi - structured interviews, field diaries and reports on criminal cases of the victims. The sample gathers common documentation of 80 cases. The analyzes refer to the profile of tracing of respondents and link between these and the many victims in the homes and in relation to security and justice system. Secondly, analyzes in greater depth, are made with reference to the daily research, considering the wealth of this source, in terms of the impact of fatal violence on the family, but also researchers. The link between the three sources, diaries, interviews and processes is undertaken by emphasizing the importance of the contribution of these in studies on violence, in direct contact with the individuals involved and, in this, especially on the indirect victims, hidden in research on deaths violent. The presence of women was marked in the houses, families and institutional relations with the opening of judicial investigations and processes. They were before, during and after the murders, objective living conditions, natural and invisible and comfortably, appropriate to State omission
Trata-se de um estudo sobre o impacto dos homicídios nas vítimas indiretas destes crimes, principalmente os familiares e, dentre estes, as mulheres. Partiu-se de resultados e registros de pesquisa anterior, realizada no Programa de Políticas Públicas da FAPESP, entre 1998 e 2003, quando se investigou as necessidades e demandas das famílias com vitimas fatais e se identificou que 81% dos entrevistados eram mulheres. Á partir desse dado e, principalmente do significado social e político que representa, considerando a perspectiva dominante de gênero, em que a casa e a família são femininas. A exposição cotidiana aos territórios violentos perpassa essas moradias e famílias e, portanto as mulheres. Metodologicamente, os dados foram elaborados através da reorganização da base documental, de natureza secundária, composta de arquivos digitalizados das entrevistas semiestruturadas, dos diários de campo e dos relatórios sobre os processos criminais das vítimas. A amostra deste estudo reúne documentação comum a 80 casos. As análises referem-se ao traçado do perfil dos entrevistados e articulação destes com as vítimas, tanto nas casas como em relação ao sistema de segurança e justiça. Num segundo momento, análises em maior profundidade, são realizadas tendo como referência os diários de pesquisa, considerando-se a riqueza desta fonte, em termos do impacto da violência fatal, sobre os familiares, mas também sobre os pesquisadores. A articulação entre as três fontes, diários, entrevistas e processos é realizada apontando a importância da contribuição entre estas, nos estudos sobre violência, no contato direto com os sujeitos envolvidos e, especialmente com as vítimas indiretas, ocultadas nas pesquisas sobre mortes violentas. A presença das mulheres foi demarcada tanto nas casas e nas famílias, quanto nas relações institucionais, na abertura dos inquéritos e processos judiciais. Elas estavam antes, durante e depois dos homicídios, condição objetiva de vida, naturalizada, invisibilizada e, confortavelmente, adequada à omissão do Estado
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Wilkins, Melinda Page. "A comfortable evil female serial murderers in American culture /." 2004. http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-709/index.html.
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"Women who kill: a psycho-legal literature review." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/1525.
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M.A.According to the Department of Correctional Services 1368 women were imprisoned on charges of culpable homicide, murder and attempted murder in 2001. In 2002 this figure came to 1136, meaning that a total of 2 504 women are currently serving sentences for the above mentioned crimes in South African prisons. Yet the judicial and psychological issues surrounding female murderers go largely unexplored (Dept. of Correctional Services, 6 September 2002).Debbie Jones, founder of the Heartwork Foundation dealing specifically with women in prison, also believes that the growing awareness surrounding women who kill partners in an abusive relationship is due largely to the new focus on human rights. This creates a space for raising this issue through providing a platform for organizations such as People Opposed to Women Abuse (POWA) to highlight the plight of an, up to now, marginalized group. The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation has added to this focus through their study of sentencing practices in relation to women who commit murder (Personal interview, D. Jones, 23 May 2003).The perennial fascination with violent crime and particularly murder, ensures a steady outpouring of material on the subject- be it in the form of newspaper articles, magazine features, empirical studies or biographies of notorious killers. However, this coverage is always selective and piecemeal, certainly never a solid basis for generalization. What they reveal tends to be more the preoccupations of the era than the major social trends (Cameron & Frazer, 1988). This study attempts to draw together the diverse views and information on female murder to create a unified picture of this occurrence. As shown by the various studies it is dangerous to construct a picture of a typical female killer against whom all others are measured judicially (Vetten & Ngwane, 2002). The context surrounding these crimes is therefore of paramount importance. This study is therefore not only valuable in drawing together divergent reports on women who commit murder but also to provide a possible guideline for future restructuring and reframing of the judicial and societal processes surrounding women who kill. It attempts to portray a South African picture of a hitherto unstudied area namely women who kill in the unique South African surroundings.
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Brown, Roberta. "The serial killer's cinematic sister : representations of the female serial killer in contemporary film /." 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR19744.
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Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2006. Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture.Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 133-141). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR19744
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"A social constructionist exploration of the experience of abuse and multiple traumas in women who kill." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/2451.
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D.Litt. et Phil.The present study explores the experiences of abused women who kill their intimate male partners and are imprisoned as a result. It looks at the multiple traumas associated with the abuse, killing and imprisonment. Abuse of women violates their right of freedom and security, as well as the right to be free from torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. The experiences are explored within a prison context in which these women are serving hefty sentences as a means of punishment. This is a means of prosecuting perpetrators by the criminal justice system, thus sending out a message that violence is unacceptable. The prison context is metaphorically and physically associated with phenomenon such as isolation, control, labelling, punishment, reform and rehabilitation, among many others. Social Constructionism as a postmodern epistemology becomes relevant in this study in that the concern is in explicating the process by which people come to describe, explain, or otherwise account for the world (including themselves) in which they live. Therefore, the abused women’s experiences are descriptions to be understood through the analysis of the intersubjective influence of language, family, and culture. The implication being that social construction reflects on that which is said about the world, which is the product of shared conventions of discourse that are guided by and limited by the systems of language that we use. Our understandings of reality are embedded in our patterns of action, and these understandings constrain future constructions. Language as an important tool in social constructionism is embedded in the ideas, concepts and memories arising from social discourse and is found in neither the speaker nor the hearer, but somewhere in between. Furthermore, the context of prison afforded me with the opportunity to experience a sense of communality with the women, which according to a social constructionist stance suggests that reality is co-created between people in their quest for meaning from the interpreted experiences. There is no absolute truth that represents its objectivity, implying that as the researcher, I am not entering the system searching for some single truth that is ultimate. This acknowledges that there are realities and reflexivity of events and situations that look for many alternatives deconstructed and constructed equally between the researcher and participants. In conducting this study, a qualitative method of research was used, which focuses on the description, exploration and elaboration of experiences and perspectives of the people being interviewed. The qualitative method is not concerned with numbers and statistical analysis in the way that the quantitative method is. The participants take active charge in describing and exploring experiences that bring about meaning to them and the study. The researcher is equally involved as the participants, and becomes the participant observer. Whilst the focus was directed towards experiences of abuse and the multiple implications of trauma on abused women, the larger social context of their experiences was acknowledged. Five women offenders who are in the Potchefstroom prison, participated in this research. The women were allowed to elaborate on their experiences as experts in their own lives. Through this interaction a relational process of sharing and support emerges, which is characteristic of therapeutic practices with social constructionism. In-depth semi-structured interviews provided a means to explore their incidents of abuse as perpetrated by their intimate male partners. For the purpose of collecting data, an open-ended questionnaire was used. A thematic content method was used to analyse data. Here themes are identified that represent the meaning of events constructed by the participants themselves. A thematic analysis reflected the following themes: Loss and gain, power and helplessness, hope and despair as well as connection and disconnection. Upon the identification and analysis of themes, the discussion of findings which are integrated using the social constructionist theory, was conducted. From the findings the implications of multiple traumas abused women suffer at the hands of their intimate male partners, and the result of killing and imprisonment, are explored.
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Malope, N. F. "Motives for child homicide by mothers incarcerated in four correctional centres in South Africa." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1221.
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Thesis (M.A. (Psychology)) -- University of LimpopoThe aim of the current study was to explore and describe the views on child homicide by mothers. The qualitative research approach, and in particular the phenomenological method of inquiry was used. A sample of seventeen mothers (with ages ranging from thirteen to fifty three years) was drawn from four female correctional centres in South Africa, namely; Thohoyandou (Limpopo Province), Polokwane (Limpopo Province), Johannesburg correctional centre (Gauteng Province) and Durban Westville correctional centre (KwaZulu-Natal Province). The sample was obtained through purposive sampling. All the participants were interviewed using in-depth semi-structured interviews. Data were analyzed using the phenomenological method. The themes that emerged from data analysis were: a) Motives for child homicide; b) Type of methods used in child homicide; and, c) Pre- and post-homicidal ideations and behaviour. The study revealed that there were different motives leading mothers to commit child homicide. These included: child homicide as a result of everyday stressors that the mothers encountered;child homicide as an act of altruism; child homicide to gain acceptance; perpetrators of child homicide as victims of abuse; child homicide as accidental; child homicide attributed to witchcraft; and, mental illness as amotive for child homicide. The study also highlighted different types of methods used by the mothers to commit child homicide. The methods included: the use of weapons; hitting, dropping and strangling; suffocation; drowning; and, poisoning. The findings also suggested that pre-homicidal ideations and behaviour of the participants were associated with anger, depression, frustration and self blame. The participants showed post-homicidal ideations and behaviour such as remorse, regret and guilt, whilst others felt a sense of relief and were somehow hopeful about the future. The study is concluded by making recommendations for further research on child homicide based on larger samples.
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Bester, Monique Carol. "The psychological factors associated with women who kill an abusive intimate partner within a cultural context." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/3254.
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M.A.Domestic abuse is a global and growing problem (World Health Organization WHO, 2002). The extent and magnitude, as well as effects of domestic abuse are, however, underreported especially within South Africa (Prinsloo, 2007). Awareness has been raised by initiatives such as Sixteen Days of Activism on Violence Against Women campaigns driven by POWA (People Opposed to Women Abuse), yet the rates of abuse stay alarming. In light of the occurrence of abuse as well as the limited resources available, some women kill an intimate partner after a prolonged period of abuse. The specific aim of the study was to uncover the psychological factors that contribute or are associated with the killing of an abusive partner by women. This was done by using multiple case studies and unstructured interviews. Participants were sourced from the Department of Correctional Service in the Western Cape Province. The participants utilised for the research included three women who killed their abusive intimate partner, and who were incarcerated at Pollsmoor Correctional Facility at the time of the interview. In-depth interviews were conducted and the data was analysed in order to derive themes. Once the themes were established, results were compared to relevant research in the field as a means to establish the psychological factors associated with women who kill an abusive intimate male partner. 5 The results indicated that certain primary psychological factors present in the sample group of interviewed women namely: development of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, experiences of coercive control, interrelational conflict and substance abuse. Secondary themes or factors found included cultural perceptions and a lack of resources. From the results obtained, a conclusion was made that women who kill an abusive intimate male partner, are often compelled to do so due to underlying factors and as a means of survival. Furthermore, culture appears to have a prominent influence as it informs the manner and acceptable means to deal with domestic abuse. Although the research contributes to the pool of knowledge regarding women who kill an abusive intimate male partner in South Africa, more is needed especially in the development of intervention programs and support.
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Futrelle, Abigail E. "The liminal figure of Julia Morrison 'ladyhood' in Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1899-1900 /." 2009. http://etd.utk.edu/2009/May2009Theses/FutrelleAbigailE.pdf.
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Bradfield, RJ. "The treatment of women who kill their violent male partners within the Australian criminal justice system." Thesis, 2002. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/1045/1/Bradfield-front-matter.pdf.
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My thesis examines the treatment of women who kill their violent male partners within the Australian criminal justice system. The primary aim of my study is to examine the circumstances in which women kill their violent partners and to explore the ability of the criminal law to have proper regard to these circumstances. The interaction between the criminal law and battered women who kill their violent partners is a topical issue that has generated substantial interest and debate in many western countries.
My thesis provides an empirical study detailing the legal outcome and circumstances of the killing in the 76 cases identified where women have killed their male partner. In the context of these findings, I examine reliance on the various defences to murder (diminished responsibility, provocation, lack of the requisite intent for murder, self-defence, insanity and automatism). The argument advanced is that the current approach of the Australian criminal justice system to battered women who kill reveals sympathy for their situation, but a failure to adequately consider whether these circumstances provide the basis for self-defence.
I examine the procedural rules that interact with the substantive law of self-defence to constrain a battered woman's ability to convey the reality of her experience of violence to the fact-finder. In facilitating reliance on self-defence, I propose a shift in the current evidentiary approach to battered women who kill from the 'battered woman syndrome' framework to the reception of social framework evidence in its own right.
My thesis also includes a consideration of the judicial approach in sentencing women who kill their violent partners. My analysis suggests that there is sympathy for the woman's situation, however there is not an adequate recognition of the mitigatory impact of a history of violence. The dominant judicial approach to mitigation appears to be premised according to principles of 'mercy' and 'sympathy' for women who can position themselves as the 'appropriate victim'.
Although focusing on the Australian criminal justice system, my thesis has potential application beyond this context.
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Ritchie, Jessica. "Revisiting the murderess : representations of Victorian women's violence in mid-nineteenth- and late-twentieth-century fiction : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English in the University of Canterbury /." 2006. http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/etd/adt-NZCU20060925.121109.
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"The murderous woman: madness in four modern western and Chinese stories by woman." 2000. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5895792.
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by Lui Sha-Lee.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 143-149).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Acknowledgements --- p.vi
Chapter Chapter One --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter Chapter Two --- Ideological Implications of “Madness´ح in Western and Chinese Culture --- p.12
Chapter Chapter Three --- Madwoman as the Murderous Daughter: Kitty Fitzgerald's Marge and Tie Ning's The Cliff in the Afternoon --- p.36
Chapter Chapter Four --- "Madwoman as the Murderous Wife: Elsa Lewin's I, Anna and Li Ang's The Butcher ´ةs Wife" --- p.83
Chapter Chapter Five --- Conclusion --- p.121
Notes --- p.134
Works Cited --- p.143
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"Murdered women on the border: Gender, territory and power in Ciudad Juarez." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/70525.
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This dissertation examines the sexual killing of women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, at the tum of the 21st century. Focusing on the abduction and murder of a 15-year-old young woman named Esmeralda Herrera Monreal, whose body was recovered in 2001 in a mass grave that included seven other female victims, it questions how the social categories of gender, space and power shape both everyday violence and the murder of women in a highly industrialized yet structurally underdeveloped city. The dissertation examines varying notions of womanhood in Esmeralda's family in the context of domestic violence, migration from urban to rural contexts, and the experience of sexual murder. It also argues that gendered violence is the product of an emergent form of hyper masculinity in U.S.-Mexico border zones, informed by the history, style and logics of militarization and organized crime. The dissertation then explores the spatial geography of violence in Juarez, and how the victimization of both men and women is shaped by the constant struggle between social groups for sovereignty and control of territory. Finally, it traces the development of a new configuration of power in border zones that is produced between the interstices of the State, the secondary State of organized crime, and of capital, a form of power that relies on the continued production of violence and terror for its reproduction and maintenance. Throughout the dissertation, narrative and ethnography are employed strategically in order to help make sense of an episode of social crime that superficially appears to defy meaning.
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Malope, Nthabiseng Franciska. "Motives for child homicide by mothers incarcerated in four correctional centres in South Africa." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1365.
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Thesis (M. A. (Psychology)) --University of Limpopo, 2014The aim of the current study was to explore and describe the views on child homicide by mothers. The qualitative research approach, and in particular the phenomenological method of inquiry was used. A sample of seventeen mothers (with ages ranging from thirteen to fifty three years) was drawn from four female correctional centres in South Africa, namely; Thohoyandou (Limpopo Province), Polokwane (Limpopo Province), Johannesburg correctional centre (Gauteng Province) and Durban Westville correctional centre (KwaZulu-Natal Province). The sample was obtained through purposive sampling. All the participants were interviewed using in-depth semi-structured interviews. Data were analyzed using the phenomenological method. The themes that emerged from data analysis were: a) Motives for child homicide; b) Type of methods used in child homicide; and, c) Pre- and post-homicidal ideations and behaviour. The study revealed that there were different motives leading mothers to commit child homicide. These included: child homicide as a result of everyday stressors that the mothers encountered;child homicide as an act of altruism; child homicide to gain acceptance; perpetrators of child homicide as victims of abuse; child homicide as accidental; child homicide attributed to witchcraft; and, mental illness as amotive for child homicide. The study also highlighted different types of methods used by the mothers to commit child homicide. The methods included: the use of weapons; hitting, dropping and strangling; suffocation; drowning; and, poisoning. The findings also suggested that pre-homicidal ideations and behaviour of the participants were associated with anger, depression, frustration and self blame. The participants showed post-homicidal ideations and behaviour such as remorse, regret and guilt, whilst others felt a sense of relief and were somehow hopeful about the future. The study is concluded by making recommendations for further research on child homicide based on larger samples.
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Corral, Adriana Cristina. "In search of a voice." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22791.
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As a native of El Paso, Texas my work reflects on autobiographical narratives and violent events that have taken place along the US-Mexico border. For the past two years my research and artwork have focused on the Femicidios (women murders) in Ciudad Juárez (Chihuahua, Mexico). The specific case of Campo Algodón (2001), where eight young women were found in a mass grave in the center of the city, led me to investigate and produce a group of works in reference to loss, justice, memory and erasure. My purpose is to create works that inform the viewer of something that has occurred and continues to happen. My artistic approach involves concept, research and process, which eventually result in installations and sculptural objects.
My aim in this thesis is to outline my research methodology and explore the intersections of my work with theoretical discourses in art, human rights, and neoliberalism. With a minimalist aesthetic, my work often masks the labor intensive process involved in research and production. By mining the archives of classified documents used in international human rights courts, I use this material as the base for my work. The nature of this material often dictates its visibility or illegibility as a classified source that cannot be revealed. This body of work requires collaboration across disciplines in which the research and communication with specialists have helped in the formation of each piece.text