The author investigates the mind of the woman who commits murder. Although they may find it deeply disturbing, many people have a morbid fascination with the notion that women - givers of life - are capable of ruthlessly taking it. Indeed, throughout history the view seems to have prevailed that women are not inclined to commit violent crimes. But Pistorius shows that this is not in fact the case. She examines more than 50 documented cases of South African female killers, categorised according to the nature of their crimes - e.g. love triangles, battered women, poisoners - and she develops a new hypothesis to explain the psychology of that rare woman, the female serial killer.
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By Michelle (South Africa) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fatal Females (Mass Market Paperback)
It never entered my mind that so few could be so deperate enough to be so evil. These all seem so calculated, which is in a way more disturbing that someone who is just a psycopath.
Ms Pistorius is unbiased and very factual and I enjoyed reading her account. Well researched.
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In the year 2000 a woman in Zeerust in the North West province of South Africa poisoned her common-law husband, hid his body in a deep freeze for a few days, then burnt it on an open fire, decapitated the charred head, burnt it a little longer, scattered the ashes in the veld and dumped the rest of his remains in a cattle dip. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ten thousand rand, female serial killers, hundred rand, female terrorists, female criminality, female killers, culpable homicide Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, North West, Marlene Lehnberg, Colonel van Niekerk, Daisy de Melker, Mpho Paulus Mokoena, Charmaine Phillips, Domestic Violence Act, Harry Mullocks, Lynn Harvey, Maria Krebbs, Maria Lee, Nina Olivier, Pretoria Central Prison, Sharon van Coller, Sunday Times, Western Cape, Burgers Park, George Kellerman, Marie Ann, Marie Cornelesen, Mignon Lombard, Peter Grundlingh New!
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In the year 2000 a woman in Zeerust in the North West province of South Africa poisoned her common-law husband, hid his body in a deep freeze for a few days, then burnt it on an open fire, decapitated the charred head, burnt it a little longer, scattered the ashes in the veld and dumped the rest of his remains in a cattle dip. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ten thousand rand, female serial killers, hundred rand, female terrorists, female criminality, female killers, culpable homicide Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, North West, Marlene Lehnberg, Colonel van Niekerk, Daisy de Melker, Mpho Paulus Mokoena, Charmaine Phillips, Domestic Violence Act, Harry Mullocks, Lynn Harvey, Maria Krebbs, Maria Lee, Nina Olivier, Pretoria Central Prison, Sharon van Coller, Sunday Times, Western Cape, Burgers Park, George Kellerman, Marie Ann, Marie Cornelesen, Mignon Lombard, Peter Grundlingh New!
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- The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker on page 283, and Back Matter
- Female Offender (The criminology series) by Cesar Lombroso in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Motivation and Personality by Abraham Harold Maslow on page 111, and Back Matter
- When Battered Women Kill by Angela Browne on page 15, and Back Matter
- South West Africa by Ruth First on page 188
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