Critical Condition: Women on the Edge of Violence
By Unknown Author.
Description
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 vi...
ISBN(s)
0872862852, 9780872862852
