LActe inqualifiable, ou le meurtre au fminin / Unspeakable Acts: Murder by Women

Quelle soit appele meurtrire, assassine ou tueuse, la femme qui commet un homicide lude les catgories usuelles : elle drange lordre social, bouleverse les rapports de forces symboliques et inquite les dispositifs judiciaires. Cet ouvrage collectif bilingue (franais et anglais) interroge la manire dont lcriture ou la rcriture du meurtre au fminin contribue faonner et problmatiser la mmoire collective de ces affaires criminelles qui font figure dexception. Female murderers often elude firmly established categories as they disrupt the social and symbolic orders of patriarchal societies and call into question the well-oiled mechanisms of their legal systems. This collection of essays (in French and in English) examines the making of narratives that have staged actual or fictional female murderers, influencing the ways in which these women are collectively remembered narratives that often lay bare the covert foundations of the indictment process.