Re-told feminine memoirs : our collective past and present / edited by Gabriela Madlo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mádlo, Gabriela, editor.

Series:

At the Interface

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women.

Women--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The present volume offers inter-disciplinary discussions on the interconnectedness of concepts such as evil and femininity. The authors comment on issues such as abjection, murder, gender stereotypes, revenge, menstruation and demonisation of women across cultures and historical periods.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Lilith: Repository for Masculine Shame / Mary Y. Ayers

The Dark Goddess and the Nation: The Political Uses of Religious Symbolism / Meenakshi Malhotra

Graphic, but not Comic: Lady Macbeth as Early Modern Mother / Esther Bendit Saltzman

The Wicked Stepmother: Fairy Tales, Child Abuse and Historical Epidemiology / Theresa Porter

Bats Flying off My Womb: Monstrous Maternity in Sylvia Plath’s Poetry / Elisabete Lopes

Abject Appeal and the Monstrous Feminine in Lady Gaga’s Self-Fashioned Persona ‘Mother Monster’ / Laini Burton

Abject(ion): The Feminine and the Masculine / Zuzana Kovar

Dead Girl Walking: Feminine Death and the Self-Portrait / Rebecca Louise

Women’s Impurity, Menstrual Blood and the Creation of Taboo: Perspectives from the Field of Christian Feminist Theology / Nadja Furlan Štante

From the Street to the Brothel: Following the Go-Between / María Beatriz Hernández Pérez

The Abode of Evil: The Female Body as a Symbol in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks / Fadwa Mahmoud Hassan Gad

Evil or Not? How Women Conventionally Deemed Evil are De-Eviled: An Analysis Based on Selected Works by Ana Castillo and Cristina Garcia / Aleksandra Holubowicz

Bathory, the Bloody Countess as an Inspiration for Fiction and Cinema

On Tonight’s Menu: Corporeality, Food and Female Monstrosity in Two True Crime Texts / Jay Daniel Thompson

Mothers Who Kill: The Rhetoric of the Women’s Liberation Movement in 1970s Japan / Alessandro Castellini

Spurned Women Crying Rape in Philippine Jurisprudence / Emmanuel Q. Fernando.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-192-4

OCLC:

885406759

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848881921 DOI