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Murder is a word with implicit gender bias; we are all aware of the typical gender roles implied by violence - that Men murder and Women are murdered. Statistics the world over back this up, but what happens to our preconceptions when they are challenged by Women Who Kill?

This lecture will explore the is gender bias in the investigation of murder, perception of female killers, and the prosecution of women and the gendered idea that women can’t be real, bloody killers because they’re specifically women.

Gender stereotypes don’t negate the reality that women can commit bloody, violent, messy murder and, like Villanelle, they can do it with a callousness and a smile. This lecture will get up close and personal with the history of women who kill … and at times with a good dose of dark humour.

Dr. Kimberley Baltzer-Jaray is a lecturer at King’s University College (UWO) in London, Ontario, Canada for the Social Justice & Peace Studies/Women’s Studies programs and the Department of Philosophy. Her primary areas of research and publication include Munich Phenomenology, the Existential philosophy of Albert Camus, and Tattoo Art & Culture

OTHER CLASSES AVAILABLE THIS TERM ARE;

Monday 5th Oct - EARTH GODDESSES AND ECO FEMINISM

Monday Oct 12th – ARTEMISIA: THE MAKING OF AN ICON

Monday Oct 19th – A ‘Feminine Ill’: Endometriosis, Invisibility and Social Medicine

Monday Oct 26th – Girls Love Ink: A Herstory of Tattoo CulturE

Monday Nov 2nd – Censorship, Curatorial Activism and Cancel Culture

Monday Nov 9th – Draw Me Like One of your French Girls: A History of Life Models

Monday Nov 16th – When She Looks at Her: Searching for the Female and Lesbian Gazes in Film Culture

Tuesday Nov 17th – When She Looks at Her: Art History, Evolution and the Female Gaze

Monday Nov 23rd – Feminism, Food and Art.

Monday Nov 30th – The Formidable Nature of Bridget Riley: An Origins Story

Dec 7th – Women Who Kill: Exploring Gender Bias and Murder

Dec 14th – Art, Healing and Public Health