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Becoming Unbecoming

A devastating personal account of gender violence told in graphic-novel form, set against the backdrop of the 1970s Yorkshire Ripper man-hunt.It's 1977 and Una is twelve. A serial murderer is at large in West Yorkshire and the police are struggling to solve the case - despite spending more than two million man-hours hunting the killer and interviewing the man himself no less than nine times. Les mer

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A devastating personal account of gender violence told in graphic-novel form, set against the backdrop of the 1970s Yorkshire Ripper man-hunt.It's 1977 and Una is twelve. A serial murderer is at large in West Yorkshire and the police are struggling to solve the case - despite spending more than two million man-hours hunting the killer and interviewing the man himself no less than nine times.Through image and text Becoming Unbecoming explores what it means to grow up in a culture where male violence goes unpunished and unquestioned. With the benefit of hindsight Una explores her experience, wonders if anything has really changed and challenges a global culture that demands that the victims of violence pay its cost.

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Forlag
Myriad Editions
Innbinding
Paperback
Språk
Engelsk
ISBN
9781908434692
Utgivelsesår
2015
Format
20 x 13 cm
Priser
Winner of The Prix Artemisia: Fight for Feminism 2019. Short-listed for Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize 2015 and British Book Design and Production Awards 2016.

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