A Conversation with Ann Jones and Betsy Reed: 'Women who Kill'

Have any of you ever read Women Who Kill? Perhaps one of the only nonfiction books out there on female serial killers and violent murderers (the other being Carol Ann Davis's Women Who Kill: Profiles of Female Serial Killers?)

The author, Ann Jones, will be speaking in New York City tonight! From Lizzie Borden to Jean Harris to Aileen Wuornos, Ann Jones's bestselling Women Who Kill investigates how and why women have murdered throughout American history, and what their cases reveal about prevailing social prejudices and legal practices...

Nearly half of the women murdered in the US between the ages of twenty-five and fifty are killed by husbands or boyfriends. Women Who Kill explores the women who, instead of enduring abuse and terror, “find extreme solutions to problems that thousands of women cope with in more . . . peaceable ways.” The Feminist Press's new edition explores the connections between domestic violence and the return of war veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, and discusses notorious new cases. Jones and Reed will look at these cases, with a focus on how recent war and economic collapse threatens women at home.

Ann Jones is the author of eight nonfiction books, including the recent bestseller, Kabul in Winter, and a groundbreaking series on women and violence that includes the feminist classic Women Who Kill, and the critically acclaimed Next Time, She’ll Be Dead. Her work as an international journalist and photographer, reporting from every continent and many remote corners of the world, has appeared in a wide range of publications, from the New York Times and the Guardian to Marie Claire Brazil and Vogue.

Betsy Reed is the executive editor of The Nation. She is the editor of Unnatural Disaster: The Nation on Hurricane Katrina, a collection of the magazine's coverage of the storm and its aftermath published by Nation Books on the hurricane's one-year anniversary. She also edited the anthology Nothing Sacred: Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terror, published by Nation Books in 2003.

Event: A Conversation with Ann Jones (Women Who Kill) and Betsy Reed (The Nation)
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
KGB Bar (85 E. 4th Street, NY, NY)
7-9 pm
http://kgbbar.com/calendar/2009/10