Deviant Women

This volume explores the representation of female deviance from literary, sociolinguistic and historical-cultural perspectives in a wide range of texts across time, cultures and genres. In this way, it elucidates a contemporary cultural concern about narratives of femininity as well as diverse sites of negotiations of female resistance.

This multidisciplinary collection of articles illuminates the ways in which the concept of female deviance is represented, appropriated, re-inscribed and refigured in a wide range of texts across time, cultures and genres. Such a choice of variety shows that representations of deviance accommodate meaning-making spaces and possibilities for resistance in different socio-cultural and literary contexts. The construct of the deviant woman is analysed from literary, sociolinguistic and historical-cultural perspectives, revealing insights about cultures and societies. Furthermore, the studies recognise and explain the significance of the concept of deviance in relation to gender that bespeaks a contemporary cultural concern about narratives of femininity.

Autorentext

Tiina Mäntymäki holds a PhD in Language and Culture from the University of Linköping (Sweden). Marinella Rodi-Risberg holds a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies (English) from the University of Vaasa (Finland). Anna Foka holds a PhD in Classical Studies and Ancient History from the University of Liverpool (United Kingdom).

Inhalt

Contents: Anna Foka: Beyond Deviant: Theodora as the Other in Byzantine Imperial Historiography - Wang Lei: Ghosts and Spirits as the objet a in Pu Songling's Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio - Sanna Karkulehto/Ilmari Leppihalme: Deviant Will to Knowledge: The Pandora Myth and Its Feminist Revisions - Tiina Mäntymäki: Carnivalesque Masquerade. Lisbeth Salander and Her Trickster Agency - Marinella Rodi-Risberg: Trauma and Contextual Factors in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees: Incest, Race and Gendered Subjectivities - Caroline Enberg: «Baby Killer!» - Media Constructions of a Culturally Congruent Identity for Casey Anthony as Mother and Female Offender - Maj-Britt Höglund: The Absent Female Rotarian in Finland: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Rotary Norden - Anka Ryall: A Deviant in the Arctic - Gerald Porter: «Foremost in Violence and Ferocity»: Women Singing at Work in Britain - Róisín Ní Ghallóglaigh/Sandra Joyce: «Threshing in the Haggard to her Heart's Delight»: Women and Erotic Expression in Irish Traditional Song.