Heartbreakers - Hendin, Josephine
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From Medea to Goneril to Sharon Stone's ice-pick murderer to Susan Smith, the image of the violent woman has fascinated readers and audiences in a way that other figures have not. Jo Hendin looks at the figure of the violent woman in her latest book where she argues that a violent woman is a grenade pitched towards both conservative and liberal views of women. Peopled with some of the most fascinating women in history, both real and imagined, 'Heartbreakers' is a thought-provoking read.
Table of Contents:
The Medea EffectMother Love on the RocksLove on the Knife Edge and Lethal…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
From Medea to Goneril to Sharon Stone's ice-pick murderer to Susan Smith, the image of the violent woman has fascinated readers and audiences in a way that other figures have not. Jo Hendin looks at the figure of the violent woman in her latest book where she argues that a violent woman is a grenade pitched towards both conservative and liberal views of women. Peopled with some of the most fascinating women in history, both real and imagined, 'Heartbreakers' is a thought-provoking read.

Table of Contents:
The Medea EffectMother Love on the RocksLove on the Knife Edge and Lethal FamiliesThe Lady is a TerroristViolence Light: Entertaining AggressionPatterns
Autorenporträt
JOSEPHINE HENDIN is Professor of English and Tiro A Segno Professor of Italian American Studies at New York University. Her novel, 'The Right Thing To Do', won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1988-1989 and was reprinted by The Feminist Press in 1999. She is the author of 'The World of Flannery O'Connor' and 'Vulnerable People: A View of American Fiction Since 1945'. She has received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Award as a leading Italian American scholar. Her literary essays have appeared in 'The New Republic', 'Harper's Magazine', 'American Literary History', and other publications.