She Devils of Australia

SHE DEVILS OF AUSTRALIA: WOMEN WHO KILL

In Australia, one thinks that it is the dangerous animals and critters one needs to be afraid of, but what of the female human species? Our society can barely account for evil in males, let alone imagine it in females. The female nests, creates, and nurtures doesn't she or is it that we just want to believe in the intrinsic non-threatening nature of women? Violence is generally considered the territory of the male. People believe that violence is a masculine trait caused by the hormone testosterone. Men are seen as the cause of violence, and women and children the ones who suffer. Literature through the centuries abounds with the submissiveness of female flesh, its compliant form, its penetrability. The female body gives life itself. Women do not physically dominate, thrust, and swagger. Women create, while men destroy. It is unfortunately a grave misconception to believe that the human female is not capable of violence, as the profiles in this book sadly demonstrate. In this book, author Sylvia Perrini looks at some of the worst murders committed by Australian women.

Welcome to the world of the Australian SHE DEVIL