
In Medea's Daughters, Jennifer Jones explores the legal, cultural, and dramatic representations of six accused murderesses to look at how English-speaking society responded to and controlled anxiety over female transgressions. The woman who kills-in particular, the...

In Medea's Daughters, Jennifer Jones explores the legal, cultural, and dramatic representations of six accused murderesses to look at how English-speaking society responded to and controlled anxiety over female transgressions. The woman who kills--in particular, the...