1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910148765903321

Autore

Glass Cathy

Titolo

Cut: The True Story of an Abandoned, Abused Little Girl Who Was Desperate to Be Part of a Family

Pubbl/distr/stampa

HarperCollins UK

ISBN

0-00-757779-6

Disciplina

362.76092

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Musica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Million-copy bestselling author Cathy Glass tells the story of Dawn, a sweet and seemingly well-balanced girl whose outward appearance masks a traumatic childhood of suffering at the hands of the very people who should have cared for her.Dawn was the first girl Cathy Glass ever fostered. Sweet and seemingly well balanced girl, Dawn's outward appearance masked a traumatic childhood so awful, that even she could not remember it.During the first night, Cathy awoke to see Dawn looming above Cathy's baby's cot, her eyes staring and blank. She sleepwalks - which Cathy learns is often a manifestation in disturbed children. It becomes a regular and frightening occurrence, and Cathy is horrified to find Dawn lighting a match whilst mumbling it's not my fault in her sleep one night.Cathy discovers Dawn is playing truant from school, and struggling to make friends. More worryingly she finds her room empty one night, and her pillow covered in blood. Dawn has been self-harming in order to release the pain of her past.When Dawn attempts suicide, Cathy realises that she needs more help than she can give. Dawn's mother eventually confides in her that Dawn was sent away to live with relatives in Ireland between the ages of 5 and 9, and Cathy soon realises that the horrors Dawn was exposed to during this time have left her a very disturbed little girl.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910136688703321

Titolo

Clio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toulouse [France], : Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 1995-

[Paris], : Éditions Belin

ISSN

1777-5299

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

305.4/05

Soggetti

Women - History

Women - France - History

Women - Social conditions

Femmes - Histoire

Femmes - France - Histoire

Femmes - Conditions sociales

Women

History

Periodicals.

France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Subtitle varies.

Issues also have distinctive titles.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955136403321

Autore

Tithecott Richard

Titolo

Of men and monsters : Jeffrey Dahmer and the construction of the serial killer / / Richard Tithecott ; foreword by James R. Kincaid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1997

ISBN

9786612424014

9781282424012

1282424017

9780299156831

0299156834

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Disciplina

364.15/23/092

Soggetti

Serial murderers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-188) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Policing the Serial Killer -- 1. Defining the Monster: Serial Killing and the FBI -- 2. Investigating the Serial Killer: The Seeking of Origins -- The Serial Killer and the Idea of the Individual -- Are You Raising a Jeffrey Dahmer? -- 3. Investigating the Serial Killer: Silencing the Unspeakable -- 4. Jeffrey Dahmer: Gay, White Cannibal -- Part II. Dreaming the Serial Killer -- 5. The Horror in the Mirror: Average Joe and the Mechanical Monster -- 6. Confessing the Unspeakable -- 7. Supercops and Superkillers -- 8. The Monstrous Self Dreaming Up Reality -- 9. Sanity, Satan, and Sanitized Evil -- 10. Fantasies of Power -- The Serial Killer and the Powers of Intelligence -- The Serial Killer as Warrior Knight -- A Man's Man: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Dream of Masculinity -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Of Men and Monsters examines the serial killer as an American cultural icon, one that both attracts and repels. Richard Tithecott suggests that the stories we tell and the images we conjure of serial killers-real and fictional-reveal as much about mainstream culture and its values, desires, and anxieties as they do about the killers themselves.