Evil Women: Representations within Literature, Culture and Film

Robyn Muir, Ph.D. (2020), University of Nottingham, researches images of femininity within cultural phenomena. She co-edited The Politics of Culture (2020) and is currently researching the politics of femininity within the Disney Princess Phenomenon.Beatrice Frasl is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Vienna, podcaster and speaker. Her dissertation focusses on heteronormativity and gender in Disney’s animated feature films.Christie Lauder is a candidate in the Louisiana State University MFA program, the non-fiction editor for the New Delta Review magazine and the associate director of the Delta Mouth Literary Festival. She is the former director of the Centre for Excellence in Journalism in Karachi, Pakistan.Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers, Ph.D. (2013), University of North Carolina, is an independent scholar writing on the intersection of gender and power in nineteenth-century German Literature. Her work has been featured in Colloquia Germanica (2012) and Gender and the Representation of Evil (2016).

• Notes on ContributorsIntroductionRobyn Muirpart 1Representation of Evil Women in Literature1 The Domina: Early Psychological Perspectives on the Female SadistElizabeth Schreiber-Byers2 Missing Lady Macbeth Kierkegaard’s Allusions to Macbeth for Concepts of Sin, Gender, and DespairWendy M Bustamante3 ‘Her Stocking Hanging Evilly’: Naomi’s Grotesque Body in ‘Kaddish’ by Allen GinsbergNicola Scholes4 ‘In a Halo of Snakes’: Avatars of Medusa in Contemporary British Women’s PoetryElena Nistorpart 2Representation of Evil Women in Culture5 The Perceived Evil of Female Bacchants and Their Subsequent Persecution by the Roman Government in 186 bceHeather Moser6 Strange, Evil, and Hard Hearted An Analysis of the Morality of Women in Appalachian BalladsHeather Beltz and Kathryn Mann7 The Hoodoo That You Do: Roots of Contemporary Management PracticeAlisea Williams McLeod8 Sexual Homicide by FemalesTheresa Porter and Charles Dikepart 3Representation of Evil Women in Film9 ‘They Thrive on the Dark and the Cold’: Evil Females, Femininity and Feminism in Guillermo Del Toro’s Crimson Peak (2015)Marine Galiné10 In Conversation with K. Pervaiz Transforming the Monstrous-Feminine Archetype in Black Lake (2020)Amy Harris and K Pervaiz11 Evil Queens and Wicked Women Female Disney Villains and the Construction of FemininityRobyn MuirIndex