Overview

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.

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Author:   Tiina Mäntymäki ,  Marinella Rodi-Risberg ,  Anna Foka
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.330kg
ISBN:  

9783631643297

ISBN 10:   3631643292
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   10 December 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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.

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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).

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