Mäntymäki / Foka / Rodi-Risberg Deviant Women

Cultural, Linguistic and Literary Approaches to Narratives of Femininity
150. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-653-03319-9
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mäntymäki, Tiina

Foka, Anna

Rodi-Risberg, Marinella

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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).