Description
Book SynopsisThis multidisciplinary collection of articles illuminates the ways in which the concept of female deviance is represented, appropriated, re-inscribed and refigured in a wide range of texts across time, cultures and genres. Such a choice of variety shows that representations of deviance accommodate meaning-making spaces and possibilities for resistance in different socio-cultural and literary contexts. The construct of the deviant woman is analysed from literary, sociolinguistic and historical-cultural perspectives, revealing insights about cultures and societies. Furthermore, the studies recognise and explain the significance of the concept of deviance in relation to gender that bespeaks a contemporary cultural concern about narratives of femininity.
Table of ContentsContents: Anna Foka: Beyond Deviant: Theodora as the Other in Byzantine Imperial Historiography – Wang Lei:
Ghosts and Spirits as the
objet a in Pu Songling’s
Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio – Sanna Karkulehto/Ilmari Leppihalme: Deviant Will to Knowledge: The Pandora Myth and Its Feminist Revisions – Tiina Mäntymäki:
Carnivalesque Masquerade. Lisbeth Salander and Her Trickster Agency – Marinella Rodi-Risberg:
Trauma and Contextual Factors in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s
Fall on Your Knees: Incest, Race and Gendered Subjectivities – Caroline Enberg:
«Baby Killer!» - Media Constructions of a Culturally Congruent Identity for Casey Anthony as Mother and Female Offender – Maj-Britt Höglund:
The Absent Female Rotarian in Finland: A Critical Discourse Analysis of
Rotary Norden – Anka Ryall:
A Deviant in the Arctic – Gerald Porter:
«Foremost in Violence and Ferocity»: Women Singing at Work in Britain – Róisín Ní Ghallóglaigh/Sandra Joyce:
«Threshing in the Haggard to her Heart’s Delight»: Women and Erotic Expression in Irish Traditional Song.
