Gender and the representation of evil / edited by Lynne Fallwell and Keira V. Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fallwell, Lynne Anne, editor.

Williams, Keira V., 1976- editor.

Series:

Routledge research in gender and history ; 25.

Routledge research in gender and history ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexism--History.

Sexism.

Gender identity.

Female offenders.

Women murderers.

Good and evil.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 205 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Contents:

Introduction: gender and the representation of evil / Lynne Fallwell and Keira V. Williams

Narrative foundations

Fifty sisters can't all be bad : the early modern reception of the legend of Albina / Phil Robinson-Self

Demanding an explanation : rhetorical apologia and the construction of evil in Victorian literature / Anna McHugh

Amazon, goddess, and valkyrie : re-reading the roots of female sadism in Krafft-Ebing's psychopathia sexualis / Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers

True crime

"Fashioned in the image of the devil : murderess Maria Manning as "the lady Macbeth of Bermondsey" / Nicole Anae

Gender and calamity in the British empire : the murderous duo of Raya and Sakina of Alexandria / Stephanie Boyle

Of nurses and nazis : sister Pia and the Dachau concentration camp / Lynne Fallwell

Evil women, dead babies : infant remains at Yewden villa / Hannah Friedman and Karen Taylor

Women, evil, and the arts

Justifiable homicide : the life and death of Carmen in late nineteenth-century America / Kristen M. Turner

Woman as perpetrator : theatrical representations of Lynndie England and the war on terror / Lindsay Thistle

"Like PLO I don't surrender" : genealogies of feminine "terror" and the evils of Orientalist desire / Tara Atluri

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gender and the representation of evil

ISBN:

9781138692893

1138692891

OCLC:

953363392

Publisher Number:

40026372127