9781943003426-1943003424-Requiem for a Female Serial Killer

Requiem for a Female Serial Killer

ISBN-13: 9781943003426
ISBN-10: 1943003424
Author: Phyllis Chesler
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: World Encounter Institute/New English Review Press
Format: Hardcover 250 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781943003426
ISBN-10: 1943003424
Author: Phyllis Chesler
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: World Encounter Institute/New English Review Press
Format: Hardcover 250 pages

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Requiem for a Female Serial Killer (ISBN-13: 9781943003426 and ISBN-10: 1943003424), written by authors Phyllis Chesler, was published by World Encounter Institute/New English Review Press in 2020. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Murder & Mayhem (True Crime, Serial Killers, Mental Illness, Psychology, Feminist Theory, Women's Studies) books. You can easily purchase or rent Requiem for a Female Serial Killer (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Murder & Mayhem books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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This psychological crime thriller takes us inside the mind of a unique female serial killer, a prostitute who murdered seven adult men-a case with which the author was intimately involved. The issues raised by this high-profile criminal case remain unresolved to this day.
Women, even prostitutes, have the right to self-defense in theory, but in practice, the story is more complicated.
This book will challenge everything you ever thought about prostitutes, serial killers, and justice in America.
Aileen Wuornos is a damaged soul, a genuine American outlaw, a symbol of women's rage, a symbol of what can happen to severely abused children, and of how our justice system fails women.
Chesler's involvement with a serial killer has haunted her ever since. She speaks in Aileen Wuornos' voice, as well as in her own, and delivers an incisive, original, and dramatic portrait of a cognitively impaired, traumatized, and alcoholic woman who had endured so much pain in her short life. When she'd had enough, the results were deadly.
This is a poignant, sometimes humorous, never-before-told behind-the-scenes tale. Wuornos' story is handled with great sensitivity, but also with realistic detachment by Chesler as she probes the telling moment, the telling phrase. Was Wuornos suffering from post-traumatic stress after a life lived on a "killing field?" Was she also "born evil?" So many prostitutes have been torture-murdered by serial killers-how did Wuornos, once prey, become a predator?
Requiem for a Female Serial Killer will also haunt you. It won't let you put it down.
Take a walk on the wild side. The ghost of Aileen Wuornos beckons.

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