Invisible Women, Fairy Tale Death: How Stories of Public Murder Minimize Terror at Home
Repeated true-crime narratives tend to deflect serious examination of the misogynistic attitudes, abuse, and/or fatal violence that too frequently precede a public massacre. A reconsideration of surviving writings by Charles Whitman, the 1966 UT Austin sniper, alongside newly-discovered letters of h...
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Göttingen University Press
2017-07-01
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| Series: | American Studies Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.asjournal.org/62-2017/invisible-women-fairy-tale-death-stories-public-murder-minimize-terror-home/ |