Engendered Death Pennsylvania Women Who Kill is an historical and interdisciplinary study of women who kill in Pennsylvania from the 18th century to the present. It is not an examination of what motivates women to kill although the reader may deduce that from the case studies included. Instead it is an examination of how society perceives women who kill and how the genderlens is applied to them throughout the legal process in the media and in the courtroom. What makes this work particularly uni