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"Murder, She Wrote": The Genesis of Susan Glaspell's "Trifles"

1992; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 44; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/3208736

1086-332X

Linda Ben-Zvi,

Crime, Deviance, and Social Control

Women killing somebody else, especially when that somebody is male, has fascinated criminologists, lawyers, psychologists, and writers. Fascinated and frightened them. Fear is subtext of Jones's book: the fears of men who, even as they shape society, are desperately afraid of women, and so have fashioned a world in which women come and go only in certain rooms; and . .. fears of those women who, finding rooms too narrow and door still locked, lie in wait or set place afire.2 Or kill.