Women and the abuse of power : interdisciplinary perspectives

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 m...

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Other Authors Gavin, Helen (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
SeriesEmerald interdisciplinary connexions
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781800433366
DOI10.1108/9781800433342
Physical Description1 online resource (xii, 189 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Seduced by satan / Cynthia Jones
  • Chapter 2. Murders most foul / Kristin Bone
  • Chapter 3. Male gaze and female monstrosity / Almudena Nido
  • Chapter 4. The monstrous girl / Miranda Corcoran
  • Chapter 5. Punk mood, junk food / Gina Gwenffrewi
  • Chapter 6. Digital coercive control morag / Claire Kennedy
  • Chapter 7. Women, torture and the abuse of power / Theresa Porter and Helen Gavin
  • Chapter 8. Good blokes and bad mothers / Laura Button.