Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781848880054
Series Statement:
Inter-Disciplinary Press Sociology, Politics and Education Special E-book Collection, 2009-2016, ISBN: 9789004400979
Content:
Preliminary Material /David Farnell , Rute Noiva and Kristen Smith -- Sacrificing Narratives in Medea /Colin Dignam -- In the Wake of the Mermaid: Our Beautiful Monsters /David Farnell and Rute Noiva -- Laura Palmer: A Monstrosity of Multiple Meanings /Anne Bettina Pedersen -- Evil and Superstition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Religious Infanticide and Filicide /Chima Agazue and Helen Gavin -- Fearing the Witch, Hating the Bitch: The Double Structure of Misogyny in Stephen King’s Carrie /Paris Shun-Hsiang Shih -- Witchcraft and ‘Bitchcraft’: A Portrayal of the Witch Character in American Horror Story: Coven /Elisabete Lopes -- Xayide, Enchantress or Femme Fatale? Magic and Empathy at the Service of Manipulation in Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story /Saul Andreetti -- What Is Evil Femininity in British Theatre? A Comparative Analysis of Shakespeare’s King Lear and Edward Bond’s Lear /Susana Nicolás Román -- Salome and Lulu Reincarnated: Evil Women as Metapoetic Figures on the Croatian Modernist Stage /Lada Čale Feldman -- Women as the Devil: Demonic Possessions in Contemporary Spanish Horror Film /Irene Baena Cuder -- Monstrous Women and the Subversion of Patriarchy in Nikos Nikolaidis’s Films Singapore Sling and See You in Hell, My Darling /Mikela Fotiou -- Evil Women and the Feminine: The Eternal Vamp and The Construction of Pola Negri’s Star Persona in 1920’s America /Agata Frymus -- ‘Keep Mum, She’s Definitely Not Dumb’: The Complex and Cunning Femme Fatale in Espionage Fiction and History /Kirsten Smith -- Maud Allan, the Cult of the Clitoris and the Future of Britain /Anthony Patterson -- Translation of Evil: Ken Kesey’s Miss Ratched in the Original and in the Russian Translation /Natalia Kaloh Vid -- Jealous Men but Evil Women: The Double Standard in Cases of Domestic Homicide /Helen Gavin -- Evil Women and Hyperfemininity: Hyper-Gender and Sexual Offending by Women /Theresa Porter and Jacquelyn Bent.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004373839
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Perceiving Evil: Evil Women and the Feminine Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2015 ISBN 9789004373839
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9781848880054
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