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2 The Gorgeous Gorgon Women and Power in the Myths of Judith Scratching the Surface -- The Supernatural -- Biblical Femmes Fatales -- Jael -- You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down -- The Two-Faced Woman -- Rape and Lucretia -- Boys Will Be Kings: David and Oedipus |
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3 Her Virtue Was Vice Christian Allegory and the Selling of Sex How to Be Good -- Seductive Virtue -- Having It Both Ways -- Vanity Thy Name Is Man -- Browsing in a Bordello -- Shopping for Sex -- The Marriage Bed and Rembrandt -- Erotic Horror |
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4 Worshipping Women The Battle of the Sexes in Reformation Europe Women Rampant -- Why Fear Women? -- Revolting Judiths -- Hysterical Heretics |
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5 The Monstrous Regiment of Judiths Power and Gender in the Renaissance Medieval Queenship -- Gynecocracy -- A Judith or a Jezebel -- Paris Is Worth a Massacre -- Queen of Bleeding Hearts -- Murdering Mother |
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6 Hanging's Too Good for Her Assassins, Tyrants and Executioners The Idea of Tyranny -- Executions -- Power and Gender -- The Appetites of Women -- Judith and Rape -- Parricide and Marricide: Beatrice Cenci and the Woman of Valencia -- Charlotte Corday and the French Revolution |
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7 The Dark Angel Romantic Criminals and Oriental Others The Romantic Criminal -- Hebraism and Orientalism -- Anglo-Saxony |
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8 Judy and Punch Marriage and `Fallen Women' The Domestic and the Shrew -- How Is Judith Fallen -- Judith Fights Back -- Meredith's New Judiths |
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135 | (15) |
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9 Reader, I Murdered Him Criminality and the Uncanny Judith as Jael -- The Poisonous Wife -- Disguised Judiths: Romantic Opera -- Murder Most Female -- The Other Self -- Uncanny Arts: Trollope and Realism -- The Fallen Angel |
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10 Framing the Femme Fatale Sexology in the Fin de Siecle The Death of Love -- Willing Bondage: Sado-Masochism -- Suffragette versus Superman -- From Woman to Woolf -- You're in the Army Now |
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11 Judith's List Identity and the Final Solution Zionism -- Victim or Victor? -- Justice or Revenge? -- God Is Not as Man -- Never Again |
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198 | (12) |
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12 Woman with a Gun Terrorism, Power and Paranoia Judith in Hollywood -- Judith's Given Name -- Judith Lets Rip -- Women Terrorists -- Fictional Heroines -- Removing the Head |
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13 Judith the Ripper Feminists and Serial Killers You're on your Own -- The Politics of Desire -- Heads and Hearts Women Who Kill |
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