Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- SECTION 1 HISTORY, MEMORY, AND MEDIATIONS OF MURDER -- 1 Mapping Scripts and Narratives of Women Who Kill Their Husbands in Canada, 1866-1954: Inscribing the Everyday -- 2 Neither Forgotten nor Fully Remembered: Tracing an Ambivalent Public Memory on the Tenth Anniversary of the Montreal Massacre -- 3 Missing: On the Politics of Re/Presentation -- 4 Killing the Killers: Women on Death Row in the United States -- 5 "Dealing with the Devil": Karla Homolka and the Absence of Feminist Criticism -- SECTION 2 TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGIES OF REPRESENTING VIOLENCE -- 6 Pearls and Gore: The Spectacle of Woman in Life and Death -- 7 "I Am Awake in the Place Where Women Die": Violent Death in the Art of Abigail Lane and Jenny Holzer -- 8 Women and Murder in the Televirtuality Film -- 9 "I'm in There! I'm One of the Women in That Picture" -- 10 Killing Time: The Violent Imaginary of Feminist Media -- SECTION 3 NATIONAL TROUBLE: GENDERED VIOLENCE -- 11 Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage: Caging Women's Rage -- 12 How Positively Levitating! Chinese Heroines of Kung Fu and Wuxia Pian -- 13 The Madwomen in Our Movies: Female Psycho-Killers in American Horror Cinema -- 14 Reverence, Rape-and then Revenge: Popular Hindi Cinema's "Women's Film" -- 15 In the Name of the Nation: Images of Palestinian and Israeli Women Fighters -- Sources -- Biographical Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.