Transgressive womanhood : investigating vamps, witches, whores, serial killers and monsters / edited by Manon Hedenborg-White and Bridget Sandhoff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hedenborg-White, Manon, editor.

Sandhoff, Bridget, editor.

Series:

At the Interface

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Miscellanea.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2014]

Summary:

This volume explores the theme of evil, women and the feminine, indicating both the misogynist and subversive implications of the evil woman stereotype.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Manon Hedenborg-White and Bridget Sandhoff

Dangerous Beauty and the Aesthetics of Disgust in John Donne’s Elegy ‘The Comparison’ / Nelya Babynets

Malevolent or Meaningful Beauty? Female Aesthetics in Etruscan Society / Bridget Sandhoff

The Metamorphosis of the Witch: Evilness and the Representation of the Female Body in The Wizard of Oz and Wicked / Paris Shun-Hsiang Shih

From Fashion Icon to Incarnation of the Abject: The Dancer Anita Berber in 1920s Berlin / Anne K. Reimers

Evil or Insane? The Female Serial Killer and Her Doubly Deviant Femininity / Helen Gavin

The Evil Witch of Slavic Mythology. Reading Myth, Gender and Narrative Identity: Dubravka Ugrešić’s Novel Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (2008) / Dunja Plazonja

Making of a Monster: Rewritten Monstrosity in Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things / Papatya Alkan Genca

Feminine Disobedience in the Poetry of Bejan Matur / Didem Atayurt

Toni Morrison’s Sula: The (Experi)mental Life of a(n) (Experi)mental Whore / Noora Shamsi Bahar

Naturalism, Female Evil and the Body: A Comparative Study of Emile Zola’s Nana and Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler / Anthony Patterson

Volatile Performances: The Dangerous Trickster Woman as Murderer in Contemporary Crime Fiction / Tiina Mäntymäki

A Sadistic Nurse as a Castrating Mother in the Contemporary Novel / Natalia Kaloh Vid

Bad Women in Action: Kill Bill in Warsaw / Aleksandra Holubowicz

Bollywood Vamps and Vixens: Representations of the Negative Women Characters in Bollywood Films / Vikrant Kishore

The Femme Fatale versus the Sentimental Heroine in Georges Bizet’s Operas: Characterisation and Performance / June Dams

Ideal and Unnatural Femininities in The Double Marriage: A Tragedy / Raquel Serrano González

Wickedness as a Source of Freedom in John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman / Mahinur Akşehir Uygur

An Evil Word: False Allegations of Rape / Theresa Porter and Jacquelyn Bent

Sexual Crimes Committed by Women in the Hungarian Communities of Transylvania / Zsuzsánna Kolumbán

Bitch in Heat: Psychology’s Pathologisation of Female Sexuality / Bethany Morris

Aphrodite’s Land, a Pornotopia: Women and the Island Nation in Baret Yacoubian’s Avalo / Marilena Zackheos

Mutilated Emancipation: Lars von Trier’s Antichrist as a Critical Approach to the Representations of Women in History / Patrícia de Almeida Kruger

Urban Women in Contemporary Turkish Cinema / Gül Yaşartürk and Emine Uçar İlbuğa

Reaching the Spiritual Realm through ‘La Femme Fatale’: Gustave Moreau’s Obsessive Paradox / Vasile-Ovidiu Prejmerean.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-283-1

OCLC:

892547573

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848882836 DOI