Gender and the representation of evil / edited by Lynne Fallwell and Keira V. Williams.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: gender and the representation of evil / Lynne Fallwell and Keira V. Williams -- Narrative foundations -- Fifty sisters can't all be bad : the early modern reception of the legend of Albina / Phil Robinson-Self -- Demanding an explanation : rhetorical apologia and the construction of evil in Victorian literature / Anna McHugh -- Amazon, goddess, and valkyrie : re-reading the roots of female sadism in Krafft-Ebing's psychopathia sexualis / Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers -- True crime -- "Fashioned in the image of the devil : murderess Maria Manning as "the lady Macbeth of Bermondsey" / Nicole Anae -- Gender and calamity in the British empire : the murderous duo of Raya and Sakina of Alexandria / Stephanie Boyle -- Of nurses and nazis : sister Pia and the Dachau concentration camp / Lynne Fallwell -- Evil women, dead babies : infant remains at Yewden villa / Hannah Friedman and Karen Taylor -- Women, evil, and the arts -- Justifiable homicide : the life and death of Carmen in late nineteenth-century America / Kristen M. Turner -- Woman as perpetrator : theatrical representations of Lynndie England and the war on terror / Lindsay Thistle -- "Like PLO I don't surrender" : genealogies of feminine "terror" and the evils of Orientalist desire / Tara Atluri -- Contributors -- Index.