The Papin Sisters

Keith (, Professor of French, University of Glasgow) Reader, Rachel (, Lecturer in French, University of Newcastle upon Tyne) Edwards

Oxford University Press, 2001

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This is a study of the 1933 killing by the Papin sisters of their mistress and her daughter. An unexampled act of violence by women against women. The book discusses the idea that the obsessive recurrence of the case makes it a prism through which to examine multiple aspects of French culture.

ISBN-13
9780198160106
ISBN-10
0198160100
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2001
Publication date
2001-08-02
Pages
142
Dimensions
225x144x16
Weight
308