Critical Condition

Women on the Edge of Violence

Author: Amy Scholder
ISBN: 0872862852

While Aileen Wournos, the alleged “female serial killer” who insists she killed in self-defense, sits on death row, Hollywood filmmakers appropriate her story. Meanwhile, in our perverse justice system the sexual assaults and murders of forty-five women in San Diego are discounted by police and given file code name NHI, No Humans Involved, because the victims are perceived as marginal: sex workers, informants, homeless or working class women.The women in Critical Condition challenge abuse and invisibility with powerful literary and visual art. They put a spin on issues of women and violence by focusing on women won fight back, sometimes killing their abusers; women who control their own sexualities and challenge conventional ideas of sex; women who assert images of themselves in a cultural landscape where none appear; women who reframe personal histories that were meant to shame them into oblivion.Critical Condition includes Carla Kirkwood’s autobiographical performance monologue

Publisher: City Lights Books
Publish Date: 1993-11-01

Subjects: Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors), Fiction / Crime

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Violence)