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Illuminating the Dark Side
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
BRILL,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Illuminating the Dark Side: Evil, Women and the Feminine
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Section 1: Bad Mothers
- 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
- Section 2: Representations and Responses
- 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
- Section 3: Portrayals Now
- Neo-Victorian Sapphic Femme Fatales: Manipulation and Double Game in Sara Water' 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
- Section 4: Were Things Ever the Way We Remember Them?
- 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
- Section 5: Evil Women in the American South
- 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 Souther Belle: (mis)Representations of the Female in Classic Hollywood Film: Jezebel and Gone With the Wind
- Section 6: Authors Today
- 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'
- Section 7: Medieval and Early Modern Echoes Today
- 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)
- Section 8: Lilith and Her Sisters
- Judaic Evil Myths in Latin American Women Writers
- Xenogenesis: Lilith the 'Other' and th 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
- Section 9: Sex Rears Its Ugly Head