Contributed by psychology and criminology researchers, along with literary specialists, writers, and historians, from Australia, the UK, Spain, and the US, the eight chapters in this volume were developed from papers presented in conversations held at the conference "Evil Women: Women and Evil," held in Vienna, Austria, in 2018. They explore the abuse of power by women or how they react to abuses of power inflicted on them. They discuss damnation, salvation, and the plight of women in 19th-century Quebecois tales and legends; changeling myths in Ireland; male gaze and female monstrosity in Beowulf; teen witches, power, and fourth-wave feminism; portrayals of transgender apocalypse; digital coercive control from the perspective of male victims; women who commit torture; and media and legal discourses of family homicide and the role of gender. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Do witches and witchcraft represent our understanding of how women who threaten the patriarchy are demonised?
If to be born female is to be born deviant, how deviant is a body transformed to be female?
There are few explorations of whether power exercised by women is as robust as that exercised by men, and therefore whether it is more open to abusive use. This fascinating anthology examines these questions through the lens of literary critique, history, criminology, and psychology to explore another representation of women - in relation to how they abuse power, or how they react when they are the victims of that abuse.
With themes ranging from the personal consideration of female bodies, to the supernatural hidden realm, to the public condemnation of women who fall foul of either the law or of a male-dominated world, this collection of interdisciplinary essays provides an in-depth look at the fate of women who abuse or are abused by power.
With themes ranging from the personal consideration of female bodies, to the supernatural hidden realm, to the public condemnation of women who fall foul of either the law or of a male-dominated world, this collection of interdisciplinary essays provides an in-depth look at the fate of women who abuse or are abused by power.
