Introduction
Victims
Suspects
Witnesses
Ripper Letters
Police Officials
Official Documents
Press Reports
Victorian London
Message Boards
Ripper Media
Authors
Dissertations
Timelines
Games & Diversions
Photo Archive
Ripper Wiki
Casebook Examiner
Ripper Podcast
About the Casebook


Most Recent Posts:
Letters and Communications: 6th October letter - by Aethelwulf 19 minutes ago.
Maybrick, James: One Incontrovertible, Unequivocal, Undeniable Fact Which Refutes the Diary - by Aethelwulf 47 minutes ago.
Pub Talk: Trump charged - by Svensson 1 hour ago.
Trump charged: Charles "Bronson" Salvador - "Britain's Most Notorious Prisoner" - Loses Parole Bid - by Fantomas 1 hour ago.
Catherine Eddowes: From Mitre Square to Goulston Street - Some thoughts. - by John Wheat 1 hour ago.
Maybrick, James: My journey from skeptic to believer - by Al Bundy's Eyes 1 hour ago.
Maybrick, James: My journey from skeptic to believer - by FISHY1118 1 hour ago.
Maybrick, James: One Incontrovertible, Unequivocal, Undeniable Fact Which Refutes the Diary - by FISHY1118 1 hour ago.

Most Popular Threads:
Other Mysteries: JFK Assassination Documents to be released this year - (64 posts)
Maybrick, James: One Incontrovertible, Unequivocal, Undeniable Fact Which Refutes the Diary - (40 posts)
Catherine Eddowes: From Mitre Square to Goulston Street - Some thoughts. - (37 posts)
General Discussion: The Seaside Home: Could Schwartz or Lawende Have Put the Ripper's Neck in a Noose? - (35 posts)
Witnesses: A photograph of Joseph Lawende in 1899 - (18 posts)
Witnesses: Matthew Packer - (8 posts)


Bowling Green University Press, 1987 (softcover)
Age of Sex Crime, The
Caputi, Jane
Ohio: Bowling Green University Press. 1987.
246pp. Illustrated, Index. [Partial Ripper Content]
ISBN: 0879723866

Casebook Review:

Much of Caputi's Age of Sex Crime is either devoted to the Ripper, or spent in comparing the actions of modern males to those of the Ripper (if only figuratively). Her thesis is more or less that the idea of "Jack the Ripper" is an encapsulation of all the hatred and jealousy men subconsciously harbor toward women - hence the perpetuation of the myth through to the modern day. Her work has a great deal of merit, but is marred by several hyper-feminist precepts which can only be classified as "anti-male." Nevertheless, a very different and scholarly feminist perspective. Recommended.