Transgressive womanhood : : investigating vamps, witches, whores, serial killers and monsters / / edited by Manon Hedenborg-White and Bridget Sandhoff.

• TeilnehmendeR: Hedenborg-White, Manon,; Sandhoff, Bridget,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, United Kingdom : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2014]; 2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: At the Interface
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Dangerous Beauty and the Aesthetics of Disgust in John Donne’s Elegy ‘The Comparison’ /; Malevolent or Meaningful Beauty? Female Aesthetics in Etruscan Society /; The Metamorphosis of the Witch: Evilness and the Representation of the Female Body in The Wizard of Oz and Wicked /; From Fashion Icon to Incarnation of the Abject: The Dancer Anita Berber in 1920s Berlin /; Evil or Insane? The Female Serial Killer and Her Doubly Deviant Femininity /; The Evil Witch of Slavic Mythology. Reading Myth, Gender and Narrative Identity: Dubravka Ugrešić’s Novel Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (2008) /; Making of a Monster: Rewritten Monstrosity in Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things /; Feminine Disobedience in the Poetry of Bejan Matur /; Toni Morrison’s Sula: The (Experi)mental Life of a(n) (Experi)mental Whore /; Naturalism, Female Evil and the Body: A Comparative Study of Emile Zola’s Nana and Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler /; Volatile Performances: The Dangerous Trickster Woman as Murderer in Contemporary Crime Fiction /; A Sadistic Nurse as a Castrating Mother in the Contemporary Novel /; Bad Women in Action: Kill Bill in Warsaw /; Bollywood Vamps and Vixens: Representations of the Negative Women Characters in Bollywood Films /; The Femme Fatale versus the Sentimental Heroine in Georges Bizet’s Operas: Characterisation and Performance /; Ideal and Unnatural Femininities in The Double Marriage: A Tragedy /; Wickedness as a Source of Freedom in John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman /; An Evil Word: False Allegations of Rape /; Sexual Crimes Committed by Women in the Hungarian Communities of Transylvania /; Bitch in Heat: Psychology’s Pathologisation of Female Sexuality /; Aphrodite’s Land, a Pornotopia: Women and the Island Nation in Baret Yacoubian’s Avalo /; Mutilated Emancipation: Lars von Trier’s Antichrist as a Critical Approach to the Representations of Women in History /; Urban Women in Contemporary Turkish Cinema /; Reaching the Spiritual Realm through ‘La Femme Fatale’: Gustave Moreau’s Obsessive Paradox /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1848882831
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Manon Hedenborg-White and Bridget Sandhoff.