Women Who Love Men Who Kill
by Sheila Isenberg
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The "engrossing, thoroughly researched look at women who are in romantic relationships with incarcerated men"—fully updated with twenty-first-century cases (Publishers Weekly).In 1991, Sheila Isenberg's classic study Women Who Love Men Who Kill asked the provocative question, "Why do women fall in love with convicted murderers?" Now, Isenberg returns to the same question in the age of smart phones, social media, mass shootings, and modern prison dating. The result is a compelling show more psychological study of prison passion in the new millennium.
Isenberg conducts extensive interviews with women who seek relationships with convicted killers, as well as conversations with psychiatrists, social workers, and prison officials. She shows that many of these women know exactly what they are getting into—yet they are willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of a love without hope, promise, or consummation.
This edition of Women Who Love Men Who Kill includes gripping new case studies and an absorbing look at how the digital age is revolutionizing this phenomenon. Meet the young women writing "fan fiction" featuring America's most sadistic murderers; the killer serving consecutive life sentences for strangling his wife and smothering his toddler daughters—and the women who visit him in prison; the high-powered journalist who fell in love and risked it all for "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli; and many other women absorbed in online and real-life dalliances with their killer men. show less
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Interesting reading and the beauty of books like this is that you can actually dip in and out of it as well as skip bits that you don't feel you want to read. The book covered three different parts, women who were already married to a man who then killed; women who fell in love with killers and finally women were part of the men's lives (mothers, daughters, sisters).
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Sheila Isenberg teaches English at Marist College.
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Technology
- DDC/MDS
- 362.83 — Society, Government, and Culture Social problems and social services Social problems of and services to groups of people Problems of and services to other groups Women
- LCC
- HV6529 .I74 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Crimes and offenses
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- English
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