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Journal articles on the topic "Evil Woman thesis"
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Duarte, Edilane Abreu, and Nancy Rita Ferreira Vieira. "A mulher bruxa no mundo do era uma vez e a reprodução histórica da dominação sobre o gênero feminino." Revista Interdisciplinar de Direitos Humanos 9, no. 1 (2021): 71–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.5016/ridh.v9i1.39.
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O artigo em tela é parte da tese de doutoramento em andamento no Programa de Pós-graduação em Literatura e Cultura, da Universidade Federal da Bahia e traz uma abordagem acerca da personificação da mulher bruxa como a representação da metáfora do mal nos contos de fadas tradicionais. Faz-se, para tanto, uma explanação inicial acerca da vinculação da figura da mulher ao mal, especialmente na Idade Média e início da Idade Moderna, no período conhecido como o de “caça às bruxas”, em que as mulheres serviram de bode expiatório às perseguições e mortes. Na construção da imagem da mulher bruxa há, e
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Smith, Jennifer H. "‘Vex the devil’: Scripture, God-talk and holiness at Villa Road." Holiness 2, no. 2 (2020): 143–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/holiness-2016-0003.
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AbstractThis article gives a critical account of the engagement with Scripture among a group of women and men from the Villa Road Methodist Church, Handsworth, Birmingham, UK. It presents research done in community during 2004/05 for the unpublished thesis, ‘Mary in the Kitchen, Martha in the Pew: Patterns of Holiness in a Methodist Church’ (MPhil., Birmingham, 2006), updated to include critical engagement with contemporary scholarship in Black British theology, womanist and feminist theology, holiness teaching and hermeneutics, and congregational studies. Working from ethnographic research, t
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Mortensen, Viggo. "Et rodfæstet menneske og en hellig digter." Grundtvig-Studier 49, no. 1 (1998): 268–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/grs.v49i1.16282.
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A Rooted Man and a Sacred PoetBy Viggo MortensenA Review of A.M. Allchin: N.F.S. Grundtvig. An Introduction to his Life and Work. With an afterword by Nicholas Lossky. 338 pp. Writings published by the Grundtvig Society, Århus University Press, 1997.Canon Arthur Macdonald Allchin’s services to Grundtvig research are wellknown to the readers of Grundtvig Studier, so I shall not attempt to enumerate them. But he has now presented us and the world with a brilliant synthesis of his studies of Grundtvig, a comprehensive, thorough and fundamental introduction to Grundtvig, designed for the English-s
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Lowes, Elanna Herbert. "Transgressive Women, Transworld Women." M/C Journal 8, no. 1 (2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2319.
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 This paper will discuss the way in which the creative component of my thesis Hannah’s Place uses a style of neo-historical fiction to find ‘good’ narratives in (once) ‘bad’ women, keeping with the theme, here paraphrased as:
 
 The work of any researcher in the humanities is to…challenge what is simply thought of as bad or good, to complicate essentialist categories and question passively accepted thinking. 
 
 
 As a way of expanding this statement, I would like to begin by considering the following quote from Barthes on the nature of research. I
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Antonio, Amy Brooke. "Re-imagining the Noir Femme Fatale on the Renaissance Stage." M/C Journal 18, no. 6 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1039.
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IntroductionTraditionally, the femme fatale has been closely associated with a series of noir films (such as Double Indemnity [1944], The Maltese Falcon [1941], and The Big Heat [1953]) in the 1940s and 50s that necessarily betray male anxieties about independent women in the years during and following World War II. However, the anxieties and historical factors that precipitated the emergence of the noir femme fatale similarly existed in the sixteenth century and, as a result, the femme fatale can be re-imagined in a series of Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. In this context, to re-imagine is t
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Johnson, Susanne. "Feminist practical theology and (un)making structural violence against immigrant women and families." Revista Pistis Praxis 10, no. 1 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.7213/2175-1838.10.001.ds04.
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A key thesis of this essay is that exploration of the construct of structural violence—especially as iterated in Johan Galtung’s notion of the triangle of violence—can help elucidate the theological concept of systemic or social sin, and thereby help Christians generate a more adequate ethical response to issues and dilemmas in immigration debates in the U.S. today. The notion of structural evil and sin can proffer insight into the reality of complex webs and entanglements in structural violence that enshrouds the lives and journeys of unauthorized Latino/a immigrants into the United States, a
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Atkinson, Meera. "The Blonde Goddess." M/C Journal 12, no. 2 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.144.
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The western world has an enthusiasm for blondes that amounts to a cultural fetish. As a signifier the blonde is loaded: blondes have more fun, blondes are dumb, blondes are more sexually available, blondes are less capable, less serious, less complicated. The blonde is, in modern day patriarchy, often portrayed as the ideal woman. The Oxford Dictionary defines a Goddess as a female deity or a woman who is adored for her beauty. The Blonde Goddess then is the ultimate contemporary female, worshipped for her appearance, erotically idolised. She may be a Playboy bunny, the hot girl on the beach o
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Rutherford, Amanda, and Sarah Baker. "The Disney ‘Princess Bubble’ as a Cultural Influencer." M/C Journal 24, no. 1 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2742.
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The Walt Disney Company has been creating magical fairy tales since the early 1900s and is a trusted brand synonymous with wholesome, family entertainment (Wasko). Over time, this reputation has resulted in the Disney brand’s huge financial growth and influence on audiences worldwide. (Wohlwend). As the largest global media powerhouse in the Western world (Beattie), Disney uses its power and influence to shape the perceptions and ideologies of its audience. In the twenty-first century there has been a proliferation of retellings of Disney fairy tales, and Kilmer suggests that although the main
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Davies, Elizabeth. "Bayonetta: A Journey through Time and Space." M/C Journal 19, no. 5 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1147.
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Art Imitating ArtThis article discusses the global, historical and literary references that are present in the video game franchise Bayonetta. In particular, references to Dante’s Divine Comedy, the works of Dr John Dee, and European traditions of witchcraft are examined. Bayonetta is modern in the sense that she is a woman of the world. Her character shows how history and literature may be used, re-used, and evolve into new formats, and how modern games travel abroad through time and space.Drawing creative inspiration from other works is nothing new. Ideas and themes, art and literature are f
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Hawkins, Katharine. "Monsters in the Attic: Women’s Rage and the Gothic." M/C Journal 22, no. 1 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1499.
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The Gothic is not always suited to women’s emancipation, but it is very well suited to women’s anger, and all other instances of what Barbara Creed (3) would refer to as ‘abject’ femininity: excessive, uncanny and uncontained instances that disturb patriarchal norms of womanhood. This article asserts that the conventions of the Gothic genre are well suited to expressions of women’s rage; invoking Sarah Ahmed’s work on the discomforting presence of the kill-joy in order to explore how the often-alienating processes of uncensored female anger coincide with contemporary notions of the Monstrous F
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Evil Woman thesis"
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Grilo, Mariana de Murta e. "Mulheres e desvio: crimes sexuais e operadores da justiça." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/36746.
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As sociedades democráticas regem-se por dois princípios fundamentais,
nomeadamente o da liberdade e o da igualdade. Assim sendo, aos olhos da lei,
todos os cidadãos são detentores dos mesmos direitos e deveres, sendo que
ninguém pode beneficiar ou ser prejudicado em razão de fatores como o sexo.
Não obstante, as perspetivas criminológicas feministas que vieram abordar a
problemática das desigualdades de género têm vindo a sugerir que, no seio da
Justiça Criminal, existe uma disparidade de tratamentos entre as mulheres e os
homens delinquentes. Nesse âmbito surgiram duas teorias-c
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Wilkins, Melinda Page. "A comfortable evil female serial murderers in American culture /." 2004. http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-709/index.html.
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Monteiro, Erica. "(Evol)ution Is Love Spelled Backwards." 2010. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/407.
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erica monteiro’s collection, (evol)ution is love spelled backwards, is book of poetry created to give readers a glimpse into the personal politics of a woman of color coming into her own. The selected pieces are written as a journey through the writer’s heart. monteiro creates a mosaic through lyrical prose that is both tangible and illusive. Some of her pieces speak to current contemporary issues as in the poem “goodnight obama”, and others deal strictly with matters of love, as in “the last hurrah”. Each poem is flavored by its own unique brand of language reminiscent of twentieth century
Books on the topic "Evil Woman thesis"
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Siegfried, Holtzmüller Gottlieb. Historico-moral dissertation on the misogyny of scholars: Evil-minded learned men against the female sex (1717) : a second supplement to A new argument against women, the Disputatio nova contra mulieres of 1595. Gilliland Press, 2001.
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Teoh, Karen M. Barrier against Evil, Encouragement for Good. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190495619.003.0003.
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The development of English-language girls’ schools in Malaya and Singapore began with their origins as providers of social welfare services and was tied to their role in overseas Chinese socioeconomic mobility. This chapter looks at the role of Catholic and Protestant missionaries, particularly the Order of the Infant Jesus, as well as the British administration in founding a large network of English girls’ schools. Although they introduced new possibilities for women, these schools also reinforced imperial hierarchies of gender, class, and race. While significant portions of the overseas Chin
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Gray White, Deborah. Standing By Their Men. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040900.003.0004.
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This chapter looks at why women associated with the Promise Keepers and most black women supported the men’s marches. It shows that both groups of women believed in the folly of radical feminism, the evil of homosexuality, the need for strong two parent heterosexual families, and the equality of men and women based on the complementarity of their gender roles. It takes a historical look at black and white womanhood and concludes that Promise Keeper women and black women wanted similar things from men but for different reasons. In looking at black and white women historically this chapter explo
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Young, Serinity. Witches and Succubi: Male Sexual Fantasies. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195307887.003.0009.
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Witches, women believed to have supernatural powers, have been with us since ancient times. Often they were beautiful, highly sexual women whom men bedded at their own risk. They had magical powers (including that of flight), communed with the dead, and did not conform to patriarchal ideas of womanhood. Their sexuality led them to be classified as succubi, or female spirits who visited men at night and had sexual intercourse with them while they slept. In medieval Christian Europe, witches were refigured as ugly over time, and they became the face of evil. They were believed to fly to their un
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Decaix, Véronique. The Devil in the Flesh. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190490447.003.0013.
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This article focuses on the body of the witch as her bond to the Devil. Witches were identified and punished through the guidance of the Malleus Malleficarum, a key text of the Inquisition, and based on Aristotelian ideas and demonology borrowed from Augustine and other ideas from Scholasticism. A kind of alternative anthropology that also included a gender analysis that women were particularly susceptible to such evil was a part of this system. They also personified a hidden and heretical connection with nature. Following De Certeau and Foucault, this article looks past these ancient concepts
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Riggs, Christina. 5. Signs, sex, status. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199682782.003.0005.
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Through the materials they used and the objects they made, ancient Egyptian artists and craftsmen turned animals, plants, and the Nile into metaphors for what cannot be seen: good and evil, creation, or the transformation of the dead. ‘Signs, sex, status’ considers the references to hippopotami, the goddess Isis, the marshes, and fertility and sexual imagery that recur throughout Egyptian art and architecture, with their distinct hieroglyphic symbols, compositional rules, and social strictures. It shows how much elite men dominated the world of high culture. Women were an integral part of this
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Mellor, Noha. The Myth of the Terrorist as a Lover. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038860.003.0006.
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This chapter focuses on media coverage of bin Laden and how it depicted his relationship with his wives, particularly the sixth one, Amal Assadah, who was rumored to have shielded bin Laden when the American commandos shot him. It argues that the main difference between the coverage in Arab media versus Anglo-American news media is that the former focused on the issues surrounding bin Laden and his family, foregrounding the wives' support of bin Laden as part of their duty as virtuous Muslim women. Anglo-American media, however, chose to focus on the image of bin Laden as a sexual being, there
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Augé, C. Riley. The Archaeology of Magic. University Press of Florida, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813066110.001.0001.
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In The Archaeology of Magic, C. Riley Augé explores how early American colonists used magic to protect themselves from harm in their unfamiliar and challenging new world. Analyzing evidence from the different domestic spheres of women and men within Puritan society, Augé provides a trailblazing archaeological study of magical practice and its relationship to gender in the Anglo-American culture of colonial New England. Investigating homestead sites dating from 1620 to 1725 in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Maine, Augé explains how to recognize objects and architectural details that colonists
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Graybill, Rhiannon. Texts after Terror. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190082314.001.0001.
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It is widely recognized that the Hebrew Bible is filled with rape and sexual violence. However, feminist approaches to the topic remain dominated by Phyllis Trible’s 1984 Texts of Terror, which describes feminist criticism as a practice of “telling sad stories.” Pushing beyond Trible, Texts after Terror offers a new framework for reading biblical sexual violence, one that draws on recent work in feminist, queer, and affect theory and activism against sexual violence and rape culture. In the Hebrew Bible as in the contemporary world, sexual violence is frequently fuzzy, messy, and icky. Fuzzy n
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Resane, Kelebogile Thomas. South African Christian Experiences: From colonialism to democracy. SunBonani Scholar, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/9781928424994.
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Theologically and historically sound, Resane’s South African Christian Experiences: From Colonialism to Democracy, envisions a robust Christianity that acknowledges itself as “a community of justified sinners” who are on an eschatological journey of conversion. This Christianity does not look away from its historical sins and participation in corruption and evils such as Apartheid. Resane argues that failing to adhere to Jesus’ teachings is not a reason for Christianity to recede from public life. Rather, doing so further pushes Christianity away from Jesus who emphatically called for the Chur
Book chapters on the topic "Evil Woman thesis"
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Davidson-Harden, Adam. "Voldemort’s “Unusual Evil”." In The Supervillain Reader. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496826466.003.0016.
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This essay takes readers from the 15th to the 21st century, and shows how midwives, “these educated and trusted, yet non-conforming women were uniquely imperiled by their learnedness and vocation, one critical to the survival, health, and well-being of their communities,” and how this conflation of knowledge, gender, and persecution continues (and is sometimes contested) in contemporary pop culture representations. Midwifes were often the targets of hysterical claims of witchcraft, which some argue has been blown out of proportion. Widows and unmarried women were also targeted. Midwives were often highly trained and skillful medical practitioners.
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Pinnock, Sarah K. "Feminine Evil and Witchcraft." In Evil. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199915453.003.0015.
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The brief Reflection looks at the history of witches in both early modern Europe and the New World. Thousands of women were condemned as witting or unwitting sources of physical and metaphysical evil. Witches were blamed for a variety of misfortunes including illness, crop failure, and the deaths of babies or mothers during childbirth. Evils committed by witches were objects of lurid fascination attributed to demonic forces, documented by monks, priests, and church authorities. Eroticized accusations reflected profound misogyny and suspicion toward those who did not conform to the patriarchal norms of church and society. Many of these witches were put to death in horrible ways, thereby adding rather than subtracting from the evils in the world.
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Sisman, Elaine. "Is Don Giovanni Evil?" In Evil. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199915453.003.0017.
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Although Mozart’s librettist for Don Giovanni, Lorenzo Da Ponte, explicitly invoked Dante’s Inferno as a source of his inspiration, both text and music tell a much more ambivalent story. The parts of the action familiar to its first audiences (the night-time escape and duel, the country maid, the statue of the dead Commander coming to dinner) were complicated by Don Giovanni’s persuasive, even heroic music and the hyper-dramatic self-justifications by his would-be conquests. Chronicling the Don’s last day, the opera focuses on his behaviors both nonchalant and impassioned as well as the inability of patriarchal norms and punishments to contain him. The opening scene, the episodic introduction of the women, and the serenade in Act II are seen here as telling examples of Mozart and Da Ponte’s desire—as in their other two collaborations, Le nozze di Figaro and Così fan tutte—to accommodate a serious moral tale to the poignant delights of comic opera. They reveal a vision of the Don beyond good and evil.
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Joshi, Gaurav, and Sunita Bhatt Joshi. "Menstrual Untouchability." In Women Empowerment and Well-Being for Inclusive Economic Growth. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3737-4.ch014.
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This chapter presents an enquiry into the scourge of menstrual untouchability, which still pervades a large section of Indian society. An attempt has been made to understand the underlying dynamics of the social evil of menstrual untouchability through anecdotal evidence gathered through unstructured theme-based interviews of respondents in Uttarakhand, India. Social norms and the pressure to abide by them have been found major reasons for propagation of menstrual untouchability. The practice of menstrual untouchability has been found to be much less rigidly observed in urban communities and single adult-women households. Isolation during menstrual periods and consequent respite from household chores has also been discovered as a reason for some women submitting themselves to this practice. All these insights have formed the basis for suggestions made to rid the society of evil of menstrual untouchability.
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Settle, Louise. "Controlling the ‘Social Evil’: Policing Prostitution." In Sex for Sale in Scotland. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400008.003.0002.
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This chapter focuses on the ways in which legislation was implemented by the police and magistrates on a day-to-day basis, and the impact police policies had on the regulation and organisation of prostitution. Rather than there being a ‘crack-down’ on prostitution, as was the case in other cities such as London during this period, in Edinburgh and Glasgow the number of arrests and convictions sharply declined. The chapter uses police, magistrates and prison records to explore these trends further and examine the various reasons behind these patterns, including the wider changes in social attitudes towards prostitution and the importance of police chief constables and police officers in shaping the way that individual men and women were treated under the law. In particular, the importance of the Scottish method of using cautions, a system that relied on distinguishing between ‘amateur prostitutes’ and ‘hardened prostitutes’, will be examined. The first half of the chapter begins by examining the policing of street prostitution and the second half explores the policing of brothels and ‘pimps’.
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Lassner, Phyllis. "Double Agency: Women Writers of Espionage Fiction." In Espionage and Exile. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474401104.003.0003.
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This chapter examines the fiction of Helen MacInnes, Ann Bridge, With different narrative techniques, each of them dramatise ethical and political concerns about the viability of a second world war. They also reshape the genre of spy fiction by creating women protagonists who represent keen insights into narrative and political relationships, particularly deracination, exile, and antisemitism. Their novels respond critically to the way conventional spy thrillers draw heroes and villains as caricatures of good and evil and women as disposable attractions. Each writer engages gender analysis as a significant part of international politics and the genre of spy fiction.
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von Germeten, Nicole. "Multiple Prostitute Identities." In Profit and Passion. University of California Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520297296.003.0007.
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In a milieu of increasing militarization, early nineteenth century Mexico City archives frequently evoke the word prostitution, as deponents on all sides of judicial inquiries manipulated its deprecatory tone. The use of this word strengthened sex work accusations and denials by recording allegedly depraved professionally sexual women. In response to this hardening scribal category, the women in this chapter reacted by multiplying their identities when they came before the police or courts court accused of prostitution or running a brothel. Trial documents do not capture all of the roles that these two defendants played, as the goal of their statements was simply to write themselves as moral, respected, and financially independent women. We can read nothing more than an enticing hint of the multiplicity of changeable identities embodied by sexually active women such as these in the final decades of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The label of prostitute emerged as an ever more solid opponent to their shifting personas, even as they reaffirmed it with their denials of its applicability to themselves. Meanwhile, notaries and judges began to inscribe a new and very seductive label in this era: the “prostituted girl,” an innocent victim of corrupting and evil influences.
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Vargas Cervantes, Susana. "Performing Mexicanidad II." In The Little Old Lady Killer. NYU Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479876488.003.0005.
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This chapter analyzes the notion of mexicanidad in terms of its underlying religious associations and their relation to official discourses on criminality. The construction of what constitutes a “morally good” Mexican versus an “evil” one, based on religious beliefs—such as an adoration of La Santa Muerte (The Holy Death) and —was used in official discourses to pathologize Barraza’s beliefs as those of a lower-class Mexican who was “evil” by nature. Her beliefs, along with her socioeconomic class, were exploited in media coverage to link her to criminality and serve as evidence that she was indeed a serial killer. Popular adoration of La Santa Muerte (and the associated figure of Jesús Malaverde) is contrasted with that of figures with whom she shares many characteristics, but which are deemed much more acceptable within the discourses of mexicanidad: La Virgen de Guadalupe and La Catrina. The chapter also explores the figure of the macho and the notion of machismo in the everyday lives of Mexican men and women.
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Abra, Allison. "The dance evil: gender, sexuality and the representation of popular dance." In Dancing in the English Style. Manchester University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781784994334.003.0005.
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This chapter explores how the social perception and cultural representation of dancing – especially its chief enthusiasts, professionals, and the public venues where it took place – were shaped by contemporary anxieties about gender, class, and sexuality. It examines the controversies that surrounded the ‘dancing girl’ (also called the flapper or modern woman), as well as the male ‘lounge lizard’ or ‘dancing dandy’, within the context of the gender upheavals that occurred during and immediately after the First World War. The chapter also considers the negative assumptions about particular public dancing spaces, as well as the paid dance partners who were employed within them, showing that these were underpinned by class prejudice and anxieties about crime and sexual immorality. However, the chapter argues that social concerns about dancing were strongly contested from the very start of the modern dance era, and that this leisure form became progressively more respectable and integrated into the national culture as professionalisation and commercialisation processes progressed throughout the interwar years.
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Hoffmann, Roald. "Mind the Shade." In Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199755905.003.0033.
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Sentenced to create—be it molecules, or laws, or paintings you may love or hate—we give in, with feeling, make new substances, transform old ones. Still others in the economic chain sell them; I teach about them. Each of us has a role in the use of chemicals. That use does immense good. And just sometimes does harm to people or property. Even though molecules are molecules, not in and of themselves good or evil. What is an individual chemist’s ethical responsibility when this occurs? Well, each of us confronts ethical questions in the light of his or her traditions. Nothing is simple when goods collide. I don’t want to preach; the only advice I would presume to give is: “Mind the shade.” Let me explain. Political campaign ads to the contrary, very little in this world is pure good or pure evil. Yet evil gets done. No, it is not the work of Satan; it is the work of pretty normal men and women, who are likely to be kind to their children and goldfish. And those who mean ill intuitively know that responsibility for exploitation or hurt had best be diffused, so that an individual in a necessarily long chain be little tempted to see the ethical consequences of the whole. Also people intent on no good construct, subconsciously, for themselves (and their collaborators) a mind-set that transforms the act psychically, taking it outside some personal ethic. In the analysis of evildoing by real people, not comic-book characters, one finds incredible compartmentalization, and the fanning of dehumanizing prejudices. Why? To self-justify actions that—in another part of life, dealing with others—would clearly be counter to the ethics that everyone, even evildoers, carries around. Given this tendency of evil to diffuse and transform itself, it is precisely those actions that are ethically gray or shaded, neither clearly good nor bad, which should be thought through in greatest depth. If there be a data point that indicates disagreement with a theory, or hints at side effects of a drug, shall I discard it before I tell my supervisor? To do so seems easy, so harmless, especially when little is certain.