Long-time friend of FLP Dr. Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray returns for her classic lecture on the dark and insidious gender bias inherent in murder...
LECTURE DESCRIPTION
Murder is a word with implicit gender bias; we are all aware of the typical gender roles implied by violence - that Men murder and Women are murdered. Statistics the world over back this up, but what happens to our preconceptions when they are challenged by Women Who Kill?
In this lecture, Dr. Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray explores the inherent gender bias in the investigation of murder, perception of female killers, and the prosecution of women and the gendered idea that women can’t be real, bloody killers specifically because they’re women.
Gender stereotypes don’t negate the reality that women can commit bloody, violent, messy murder and, like Villanelle, they can do it with a callousness and a smile. This lecture will get up close and personal with the history of women who kill … and at times with a good dose of dark humour.
ABOUT OUR LECTURER
Dr. Kimberley Baltzer-Jaray (she/they) is a lecturer at King’s University College (UWO) in London, Ontario, Canada for the Social Justice & Peace Studies/Women’s Studies programs and the Department of Philosophy. Her primary areas of research and publication include Munich Phenomenology, the Existential philosophy of Albert Camus, and Tattoo Art & Culture.
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