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Gabriela Mádlo
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i–xvii
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848880443_001

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Cover Illuminating the Dark Side: Evil, Women and the Feminine
E-Book ISBN:
9781848880443
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
15 Apr 2010
Caesarean Kidnapping: Maternal Instinct, Malingering and Murder
The Dilemma of Depicting Desire: Maternal Secret or Public Censure
Unnatural Mothers, Mothering Unnaturally: Technologies of Reproduction and the Politics of Maternity in Hiromi Goto’s Hopeful Monsters
Lampooning ‘The Queen of Mean’: Representations of Leona Helmsley in Popular Culture
Aileen Wuornos: Sympathy For The Devil
‘Look At Moiye!’: Monstrous Feminine as Social Rebellion in Kath & Kim
Neo-Victorian Sapphic Femme Fatales: Manipulation and Double Game in Sarah Waters’ Affinity
Mother against Daughter and Daughter against Mother: Hostile Femininity in the Neo-Victorian Novel
The Breast Bites Back: How the Projected ‘Bad’ Object of the Female Vampire Achieves Autonomy in L. Wiseman’s Underworld Evolution
Exotic Demons: Representations of the Ethnic Woman in Jack Kerouac’s The Subterraneans
Dangerous Whispers from the Flower and Willow World
The True Blood of the South: Hypermodern Portrayals of the Mythological Figure of the Maenad
Sweet-Tongued Foes: Female Antagonists in Fantasy Fiction for Children and Young Adults
The Tarantula Arms! That’s Where I Brought My Victims! Blanche Dubois, or the Journey from Southern Belle to Evil Woman
‘I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get’: Regina Giddens as Portrayal of a New Southern Evil in William Wyler’s The Little Foxes
From Jezebel to the Southern Belle: (Mis)Representations of the Female in Classic Hollywood Film: Jezebel and Gone With the Wind
Hawthorne and Tolstoy: Views on the Problem of Women as Evil
The Beauty Myth as the Root of Feminine Evil in Marie Belloc Lowndes’ What Really Happened
Introspaces of Subversion vs Ideological: Spaces of Evil in Eavan Boland’s ‘Anorexic’
Sculpting Wanton Vessels: Physiognomy, Medical Theory and the Construction of the Evil Feminine in the Later Middle Ages
Female Imagination as Origin of Evil in Paracelsus (1493-1541) and Boehme (1575-1624)
Judaic Evil Myths in Latin American Women Writers
Xenogenesis: Lilith the ‘Other’ and the Alien Origin Story in the Science Fiction Saga of O. E. Butler
Beyond the Femme Fatale: The Mythical Pandora as Cathartic, Transformative Force
The Bitch: ‘La Malinche’ and the Construct of the Deviant Female in Chicana Feminist Theory and Writings
Prostitution and the Prostitute: Demonisation or Sanctification, Vixen or Victim? The Belgian Experience
Immoral Earnings: Portraying Prostitutes in Ottoman Turkey
High-Flyers of the Restoration: Literary Attempts at Taming the (W)hor(r)ific
The Problem of Representability: Lesbian Depiction in the Horror Film and Contemporary Art

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