1st Edition
Gender and the Representation of Evil
Introduction: Gender and the Representation of Evil
[Lynne Fallwell and Keira V. Williams]
Section I: Narrative Foundations
1. Fifty Sisters Can’t All Be Bad: The Early Modern Reception of the Legend of Albina
[Phil Robinson-Self]
2. Demanding an Explanation: Rhetorical Apologia and the Construction of Evil in Victorian Literature
[Anna McHugh]
3. Amazon, Goddess, and Valkyrie: Re-Reading the Roots of Female Sadism in Krafft-Ebing’s Psychopathia Sexualis
[Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers]
Section II: True Crime
4. "Fashioned in the Image of the Devil": Murderess Maria Manning as "the Lady Macbeth of Bermondsey"
[Nicole Anae]
5. Gender and Calamity in the British Empire: The Murderous Duo of Raya and Sakina of Alexandria
[Stephanie Boyle]
6. Of Nurses and Nazis: Sister Pia and the Dachau Concentration Camp
[Lynne Fallwell]
7. Evil Women, Dead Babies: Infant Remains at Yewden Villa
[Hannah Friedman and Karen Taylor]
Section III: Women, Evil, and the Arts
8. Justifiable Homicide: The Life and Death of Carmen in Late Nineteenth-Century America
[Kristen M. Turner]
9. Woman as Perpetrator: Theatrical Representations of Lynndie England and the War on Terror
[Lindsay Thistle]
10. “Like PLO I Don’t Surrender”: Genealogies of Feminine “Terror” and the Evils of Orientalist Desire
[Tara Atluri]
Biography
Lynne Fallwell teaches in the Educational Psychology and Leadership Program at Texas Tech University.
Keira V. Williams is an Assistant Professor in the Honors College at Texas Tech University.
