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A Murder Over a Girl: Justice, Gender, Junior High

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Availability:In StockContributor:Ken CorbettPublish date:2017-03-14Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250118158ISBN-10:1250118158UPC:9781250118158Book Category:True Crime, Social Science, PsychologyBook Subcategory:Murder, Gender Studies, Social PsychologySize:8.90 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCCYZY05KC

In February 2008, during first period English class at a junior high school in Oxnard, California, blue-eyed and blond fourteen-year-old Brandon McInerney shot and killed fifteen-year-old Larry King, a brown boy, who had recently begun to identify as "Leticia."

Shaken by a newspaper item about this murder and further unsettled by ongoing media that sidestepped gender identity and race in the coverage of the crime, psychologist Ken Corbett traveled to LA to attend the trial. Drawing on firsthand observations, interviews, and decades of academic work on gender and sexuality, Corbett holds the point of view of every witness up to the light. As visions of victim and perpetrator were woven and unwoven in the theater of the courtroom, a haunting story unfolds about the two young lives at the center of this tragedy, along with, but the story of their community, their families, friends, schoolmates, and teachers. Deeply compassionate, and brimming with startling insights, A Murder Over a Girl is a wrenching and unforgettable drama of the human psyche that will leave readers shaken yet newly fortified by the hope that comes from knowledge.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250118158ISBN-10:1250118158UPC:9781250118158Book Category:True Crime, Social Science, PsychologyBook Subcategory:Murder, Gender Studies, Social PsychologySize:8.90 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCCYZY05KC
Ken Corbett is Clinical Assistant Professor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He maintains a private practice in New York City and consults internationally. His writings and interviews about gender, sexuality, art, and psychotherapy appear in academic journals as well as in magazines, newspapers, websites, and on television. He is the author of the critically acclaimed "Boyhoods: Rethinking Masculinities."
Publisher: Picador USA

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