Femicide The Politics of Woman Killing

edited by JILL RADFORD AND DIANA E. H. RUSSELL

Twayne Publishers • New York

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Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 3 JILL RADFORD : Sexist Terrorism against Women 13 JANE CAPUTl AND DIANA E. H. RUSSELL

PART 1 • FEMICIDE IS AS OLD AS Introduction 25 The Witch-craze in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England as Social Control of Women 27 MARIANNE HESTER Legal Lesbicide 40 RUTHANN ROBSON Wife Torture in England 46 FRANCES POWER COBBE Femicidal Lynching in the 53 COMPILED BY DIANA E. H. RUSSELL Women to Burn: Suttee as a Normative Institution 62 DOROTHYK. STEIN Female Genocide 67 MARIELOUISE JANSSEN-JURREIT viii • CONTENTS

PART 2 • THE PATRIARCHAL HOME: THE MOST LETHAL PLACEFOR WOMEN Introduction 77 Womanslaughter 79 PAT PARKER Till DeathUs Do Part 83 MARGO WILSON AND MARTIN DALY "If I Can't Have You, No One Can": Power and Control in Homicide of Female Partners 99 JACQUELYN C. CAMPBELL License to Kill 114 RIKKI GREGORY Women and Structural Violence in India 117 GOVIND KELKAR Thousands Visit Indian Village Where Bride Died by S uttee 123 RAJENDRA BAJPAI Female Infanticide: Born to Die 125 S. H. VENKATRAMANI "Intimate Femicide": Effect of Legislation and Social Services 133 KAREN D. STOUT

PART 3 • FEMICIDE AND RACISM Introduction 143 Who's KiUing Us? 145 JAIME M. GRANT Annihilation by Murder and by the Media: The Other Atlanta 161 DIANA E. H. RUSSELL AND CANDIDA ELUS Femicidal Rapist Targets Asian Women 163 DIANA E.H. RUSSELL Slavery and Femicide 167 DIANA E.H.RUSSELL American Indian Women KiUing: A TewaNative Woman's Perspective 170 BEVERLY R. SINGER CONTENTS • ix

PART 4 • THE MASS MEDIA, , AND GORENOGRAPHY Introduction 177 Woman Killer as Tragic Hero 178 SANDRA McNEILL "That's Entertainment"?: Jack the Ripper and the Selling of Sexual Violence 184 DEBORAH CAMERON Snuff—The Ultimate in 189 BEVERLY LABELLE What the White Man Won't Teil Us: Report from the Berkeley Clearinghouse on Femicide 195 CHRIS DOMINGO Advertising Femicide: Lethal in Pornography and Gorenography 203 JANE CAPUTI

PART 5 • FEMICIDE AND TRAVESTIES OF JUSTICE Introduction 225 Retrospect on a Trial 227 JILL RADFORD The Case of the Yorkshire Ripper: Mad, Bad, Beast, or Male? 233 LUCY BLAND Womanslaughter: A License to Kill? The Killing of Jane Asher 253 JILL RADFORD Naggers, Whores, and Libbers: Provoking Men to Kill 267 SUELEES Fay Stender and the Politics of Murder 289 DIANA E.H. RUSSELL

PART 6 • WOMEN FIGHTING BACK AGAINST FEMICIDE Introduction 303 Women, Angry at Male Violence, Say: "Resist the Curfew!" 305 DUSTY RHODES AND SANDRA McNEILL Fighting for Justice 306 THE GURDIP KAUR CAMPAIGN X • CONTENTS

Two Struggles: Challenging Male Violence and the Police 312 SOUTHALL BLACK SISTERS In Mourning and in Rage (with Analysis Aforethought) 317 SUZANNE LACY Nikki Craft: Inspiring Protest Introduction 325 DIANA E.H. RUSSELL The Incredible Case of the Stack o' Wheat Prints 327 NIKKI CRAFT The Evidence of Pain 331 D. A. CLARKE Striking Flynt 336 IRENE MOOSEN Actions against Hustler 337 PREYING MANT1S WOMEN'S BRIGADE The Rampage against Penthouse 339 What Can We Do about Femicide?: A Proposal 346 ANONYWOMEN

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION Where Do We Go from Here? 351 JILL RADFORD is not so good to be born a girl (I) 358 NTOZAKESHANGE Sources 361 Index 371