Divergent women : interdisciplinary perspectives on female deviance and dissent

A 'good woman' is hard to find. To be 'good', after all, women face expectations that are shifting, internally contradictory, emotionally extreme, and prospectively even deadly. To be divergent, on the other hand, is an expansive position, encompassing cackling witches, childfree...

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Other Authors Rumson, Lorraine (Editor), Bentham, Abby (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
SeriesEmerald interdisciplinary connexions
Subjects
Women.
Deviant behavior.
Femininity.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781801176804
DOI10.1108/9781801176781
Physical Description1 online resource (228 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Grasping the broomstick, cutting the umbilical cord / Lorraine Rumson and Abby Bentham Section I. Maiden
  • Chapter 2. Portrait of the monster as a young girl - an interactive dialogue / Simmone Howell and Bec Kavanagh
  • Chapter 3. Spiteful spirits: Projection and blaming in women's lives and mother-daughter narratives / Moy McCrory
  • Chapter 4. Witch hunt: The media's obsession with one infamous canadian / Jane Barker Section II. Mother
  • Chapter 5. The paradox of female villainy in mary robinson's walsingham and charlotte smith's the young philosopher / Tammy Dalldorf and Sylvia Tloti
  • Chapter 6. Resubjectivation of the female voice in eunsung kim's my mother's story / Soonbae Kim
  • Chapter 7. Off with their wombs! Cultural representations of women's rebellion against motherhood / Elif Çakmak and Lorraine Rumson
  • Chapter 8. Beyond mandatory motherhood: How childfree women use digital spaces to redefine womanhood / Sam George-Allen Section III. Crone
  • Chapter 9. All about snow white's mother / Naomi Govreen
  • Chapter 10. Forgiving European witches: The case for pardons and memorials / Catherine Jenkins.

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