Perceiving Evil : Evil Women and the Feminine.

Intro -- Perceiving Evil: Evil, Women and the Feminine -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Perceiving Evil: Evil, Women and the Feminine -- Part I Myths and Tales: Fear and Adoration in the Feminine -- Sacrificing Narratives in Medea -- In the Wake of the Mermaid: Our Beautiful Monsters -- Laura Palmer: A Monstrosity of Multiple Meanings -- Part II The Cult of the Witch: Powerful Women as the Face of Evil -- Evil and Superstition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Religious Infanticide and Filicide -- Fearing the Witch, Hating the Bitch: The Double Structure of Misogyny in Stephen King's Carrie -- Witchcraft and 'Bitchcraft': A Portrayal of the Witch Character in American Horror Story: Coven -- Xayide, Enchantress or Femme Fatale? Magic and Empathy at the Service of Manipulation in Michael Ende's The Neverending Story -- Part III The Evil in Play: Female Evil Characters in Theatre and Film -- What is Evil Femininity in British Theatre? A Comparative Analysis of Shakespeare's King Lear and Edward Bond's Lear -- Salome and Lulu Re-incarnated: Evil Women as Meta-Poetic Figures on the Croatian Modernist Stage -- Women as the Devil: Demonic Possessions in Contemporary Spanish Horror Film -- Monstrous Women and the Subversion of Patriarchy in Nikos Nikolaidis' Films Singapore Sling and See You in Hell, My Darling -- Evil Women and the Feminine: The Eternal Vamp and The Construction of Pola Negri's Star Persona in 1920's America -- Part IV I Spy a Woman: Women and the War Effort -- 'Keep Mum, She's Definitely Not Dumb': The Complex and Cunning Femme Fatale in Espionage Fiction and History -- Maud Allan, the Cult of the Clitoris and the Future of Britain -- Translation of Evil: Ken Kesey's Miss Ratched in the Original and in the Russian Translation -- Part V The Evil among Us: Evil Women in Contemporary Society.

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