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Evil Women: Representations within Literature, Culture and Film

Robyn Muir, Beatrice Frasl, Christie Marie Lauder, Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

164 Seiten

2022
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-49949-2 (ISBN)

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Often side-lined or simplified, evil women challenge societal norms of womanhood. This volume explores how evil women have been constructed, punished, and erased within literature, culture, and film and how this contributes to our understanding of womanhood.

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.

Robyn Muir, Ph.D. (2020), University of Nottingham, researches images of femininity within cultural phenomena. She co-edited The Politics of Culture (2020) and is currently researching the politics of femininity within the Disney Princess Phenomenon. Beatrice Frasl is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Vienna, podcaster and speaker. Her dissertation focusses on heteronormativity and gender in Disney’s animated feature films. Christie Lauder is a candidate in the Louisiana State University MFA program, the non-fiction editor for the New Delta Review magazine and the associate director of the Delta Mouth Literary Festival. She is the former director of the Centre for Excellence in Journalism in Karachi, Pakistan. Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers, Ph.D. (2013), University of North Carolina, is an independent scholar writing on the intersection of gender and power in nineteenth-century German Literature. Her work has been featured in Colloquia Germanica (2012) and Gender and the Representation of Evil (2016).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	03.02.2022
Reihe/Serie	At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 137
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	288 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	90-04-49949-0 / 9004499490
ISBN-13	978-90-04-49949-2 / 9789004499492
Zustand	Neuware