ISBN:
9781315531571
,
9781315531564
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 205 Seiten)
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
Routledge research in gender and history 25
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.309
Keywords:
Sexism History
;
Gender identity
;
Female offenders
;
Women murderers
;
Good and evil
;
Sexism ; History
;
Gender identity
;
Female offenders
;
Women murderers
;
Good and evil
;
Frau
;
Das Böse
;
Weibliche Kriminelle
;
Literatur
;
Geschlechterforschung
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
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
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Literaturangaben
DOI:
10.4324/9781315531571
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