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Book SynopsisEvil women, who are they really? What are their motives, and how are they remembered and constructed within our culture? Evil Women: Representations within Literature, Culture and Film seeks to interrogate the nature and construction of evil women in the above fields. Through literature, poetry, history, ballads, film and real-life culture, scholars explore how the evil woman has been constructed and, in some cases, erased; the punishment and treatment of evil women; and the way evil women have been portrayed on and off screen through character, narrative and behind the camera development.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction Robyn Muir part 1 Representation of Evil Women in Literature 1 The Domina: Early Psychological Perspectives on the Female Sadist Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers 2 Missing Lady Macbeth Kierkegaard’s Allusions to Macbeth for Concepts of Sin, Gender, and Despair Wendy M Bustamante 3 ‘Her Stocking Hanging Evilly’: Naomi’s Grotesque Body in ‘Kaddish’ by Allen Ginsberg Nicola Scholes 4 ‘In a Halo of Snakes’: Avatars of Medusa in Contemporary British Women’s Poetry Elena Nistor part 2 Representation of Evil Women in Culture 5 The Perceived Evil of Female Bacchants and Their Subsequent Persecution by the Roman Government in 186 bce Heather Moser 6 Strange, Evil, and Hard Hearted An Analysis of the Morality of Women in Appalachian Ballads Heather Beltz and Kathryn Mann 7 The Hoodoo That You Do: Roots of Contemporary Management Practice Alisea Williams McLeod 8 Sexual Homicide by Females Theresa Porter and Charles Dike part 3 Representation of Evil Women in Film 9 ‘They Thrive on the Dark and the Cold’: Evil Females, Femininity and Feminism in Guillermo Del Toro’s Crimson Peak (2015) Marine Galiné 10 In Conversation with K. Pervaiz Transforming the Monstrous-Feminine Archetype in Black Lake (2020) Amy Harris and K Pervaiz 11 Evil Queens and Wicked Women Female Disney Villains and the Construction of Femininity Robyn Muir Index
