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    Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters
    Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters
    Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters
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    Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters

    Written by Peter Vronsky

    Narrated by Charles Constant

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    About this audiobook

    Society is conditioned to think of murderers and predators as men, but in this fascinating book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women who kill-and the political, economic, social, and sexual implications.

    From history's earliest recorded cases of homicidal females to Irma Grese, the Nazi Beast of Belsen, from Britain's notorious child-slayer Myra Hindley to "Honeymoon Killer" Martha Beck, from the sensational murder-spree of Aileen Wournos, to cult killers, homicidal missionaries, and the sexy femme fatale, Vronsky challenges the ordinary standards of good and evil and defies the accepted perceptions of gender role and identity.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 4, 2017
    ISBN9781541473294
    Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters
    Author

    Peter Vronsky

    Peter Vronsky is the author of a true-crime history bestseller, Serial Killers: The Method and Mandness of Monsters (Berkley Books - Penguin Group, 2004.) The sequel Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters was published by Berkley Penguin in 2007. His current book based on his doctoral dissertation is Ridgeway: The American Fenian Invasion and the 1866 Battle That Made Canada (Allen Lane - Penguin Random House Canada, 2011) a controversial study of the hidden history of Canada's first modern battle.

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    • 3/5
      While this book has great technical writing and the narrator is great, Vronsky’s distaste and hatred of women is apparent and appalling. Also I’m pretty sure he needs to look up what feminism is bc whatever he explains in here ain’t it

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    • 2/5
      It was disappointing. While the author claims to be feminist, there’s a lot of vitriol directed towards other feminists. He spends several minutes blaming mothers for how male serial killers turn out neglecting to mention the role, or lack thereof, of the fathers. It was distasteful and not what I expected from this author.
    • 4/5
      I found this book informable and respectful. For which made this book an easy read for me.
      I learned new things to research. Narrator was present.
    • 5/5
      Very well researched and presented clinically with few speculative comments. Well informed and worth the read or listen
    • 3/5
      Vronsky’s thesis to counter the public perception that women can’t be aggressive killers. An interesting premise, but his lack of compassion does give me pause. Do I think women can be just as aggressive as men? Absolutely, but Vronsky doesn’t exactly address the “how” and the “why” in his title. He is more interested in categorizing the killers than exploring the individual psychology of his title.
    • 5/5
      Quite an interesting read. Vronsky does a good deal of myth-busting in this book, refuting for example the old canards about how female serial killers are always poisoners, or only kill people they know, or aren't as vicious as the male ones. He goes way back in history -- all the way back to the infamous Elizabeth Bathory and also chooses to include the Nazi camp guards Irma Grese and Ilse Koch. Most people would not think of Nazis as being "real" serial killers, but Vronsky makes a good case for including them.Be forewarned that Vronsky has a very blunt way of writing, with occasional cursing (though cursing shouldn't faze anyone reading a book about serial killers). I really liked the tone myself, and I liked his research. This book isn't for the cursory true crime reader, being close to 500 pages long, but if you're really into this sort of thing you'll enjoy it. I now want to seek out more of his work.