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Evil 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.
Contents
Notes 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
