Women Who Kill

When battered and abused women began to fight back---and kill---men began to fear that this would become an epidemic. Some felt that women were getting away with murder. But were they? They were not. In fact, in many cases their punishment was harsher than that of men.

But this book is much more than a description of battered women who kill in self-defense. It is a social history and a fascinating story of women on the edge of society---women driven to kill for a multitude of reasons. Here are tales of crime and punishment that reveal hard truths bout American Society and women's place in it.