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1 online resource (317 p.) |
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Intro -- Illuminating the Dark Side: Evil, Women and the Feminine -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Section 1: Bad Mothers -- Caesarean Kidnapping: Maternal Instinct, Malingering and Murder -- The Dilemma of Depicting Desire: Maternal Secret or Public Censure -- Unnatural Mothers, Mothering Unnaturally: Technologies of Reproduction and the Politics of Maternity in Hiromi Goto's Hopeful Monsters -- Section 2: Representations and Responses -- Lampooning 'The Queen of Mean': Representations of Leona Helmsley in Popular Culture -- Aileen Wuornos: Sympathy For The Devil |
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'Look at Moiye!"": Monstrous Feminine as Social Rebellion in Kath & Kim -- Section 3: Portrayals Now -- Neo-Victorian Sapphic Femme Fatales: Manipulation and Double Game in Sara Water' Affinity -- Mother against Daughter and Daughter against Mother: Hostile Femininity in the Neo-Victorian Novel -- The Breast Bites Back: How the Projected 'Bad' Object of the Female Vampire Achieves Autonomy in L. Wiseman's Underworld Evolution -- Exotic Demons: Representations of the Ethnic Woman in Jack Kerouac's The Subterraneans -- Section 4: Were Things Ever the Way We Remember Them? |
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Dangerous Whispers from the Flower and Willow World -- The True Blood of the South: Hypermodern Portrayals of the Mythological Figure of the Maenad -- Sweet-Tongued Foes: Female Antagonists in Fantasy Fiction for Children and Young Adults -- Section 5: Evil Women in the American South -- The Tarantula Arms! That's Where I Brought My Victims! Blanche Dubois, or the Journey from Southern Belle to Evil Woman -- 'I don't ask for things I don't think I can get': Regina Giddens as Portrayal of a New Southern Evil in William Wyler's The Little Foxes |
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From Jezebel to the Souther Belle: (mis)Representations of the Female in Classic Hollywood Film: Jezebel and Gone With the Wind -- Section 6: Authors Today -- Hawthorne and Tolstoy: Views on the Problem of Women as Evil -- The Beauty Myth as the Root of Feminine Evil in Marie Belloc Lowndes' What Really Happened -- Introspaces of Subversion vs Ideological: Spaces of Evil in Eavan Boland's 'Anorexic' -- Section 7: Medieval and Early Modern Echoes Today -- Sculpting Wanton Vessels: Physiognomy, Medical Theory and the Construction of the Evil Feminine in the Later Middle Ages |
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Female Imagination as Origin of Evil in Paracelsus (1493-1541) and Boehme (1575-1624) -- Section 8: Lilith and Her Sisters -- Judaic Evil Myths in Latin American Women Writers -- Xenogenesis: Lilith the 'Other' and th Alien Origin Story in the Science Fiction Saga of O. E. Butler -- Beyond the Femme Fatale: The Mythical Pandora as Cathartic, Transformative Force -- The Bitch: 'La Malinche' and the Construct of the Deviant Female in Chicana Feminist Theory and Writings -- Section 9: Sex Rears Its Ugly Head |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Prostitution and the Prostitute: Demonisation of Sanctification, Vixen or Victim? The Belgian Experience |
| Subject |
Deviant behavior.
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Abusive women.
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Abusive women
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Deviant behavior
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mádlo, Gabriela
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| ISBN |
1848880448 |
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9781848880443 |
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