Abstract
Millie Wilson, in her installation Not a Serial Killer (1994), and Tammy Rae Carland, in her video Lady Outlaws and Faggot Wannabes (1995), critically examine media representations of Aileen Wuornos. Wuornos, who has been classified as the “first woman serial killer” by the FBI, has been on death row in Florida since her 1992 trial.1 Now aged 39, Wuornos had been a sex worker for most of the seventeen years preceding her arrest in January 1991. Convicted of killing seven men, she testified that she had armed herself with a gun when soliciting clients in response to increasing levels of violence.2 Wuornos has consistently affirmed the right to self-defense: “I'm supposed to die because I'm a prostitute? No, I don't think so.
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