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A 5 page examination of author Helen Birch' suggestion that: "The mythology of Myra Hindley reveals, above all, that we do not have a language to represent female killing...". The author of this paper contends that while that has been the case throughout history, feminist criminology is slowly fashioning such a language. Bibliography lists sources.
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Women who commit acts of extreme violence are an anomaly in our society. Those who do commit such acts are regarded in a way
by society that is very distinct from the way we regard males who commit similar acts. Women like Myra Hindley in the U.K. and Aileen Wuornos in the U.S.
stand as prime examples of women criminals that are viewed as pure evil, as demons, by society. In effect, in fact, they become cultural icons of evil. Wuornos,
of course, was convicted for a series of killings that occurred in Florida in the 1990s and Hindley for the murders of several young teens in the London marshes in
the 1930s. Both became the target of societal hatred and contempt the degree of which has seldom been equaled for male criminals. The reason is that we as
a society refuse to accept that women are just as capable of violent crime as men. In "If Looks Could Kill: Myra Hindley and the Iconography of Evil",
author Helen Birch (1993, 63) suggests that: "The mythology of Myra Hindley reveals, above all,
that we do not have a language to represent female killing...". We lack
the language because our society has been brainwashed that women are the "gentler sex", the caretakers and the domestics. When they act outside those roles we are simply astonished.
As Birch (1993) also observes, our societal ideology of gender is disrupted. It can be contended, however, that although this has been the case throughout history our societal
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