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The form of art called fiction has always been the privileged framework providing the perfect alibi for facing, framing, and containing the Other's desire and the strange libido attached to violence: in other words, there is an ambivalent dimension inherent in the scenarios and fantasies we enjoy by proxy. Are not the fairy tales of our childhood full of images of death and violence, whose fascinating presence is paradoxically meant to make us feel all the more safely tucked up in bed? After ...

Women and literature. --- Female offenders in literature. --- Crime in literature. --- Femininity in literature. --- Femininity (Psychology) in literature --- Literature

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In this ground-breaking study, Sabine Binder analyses the complex ways in which female crime fictional victims, detectives and perpetrators in South African crime fiction resonate with widespread and persistent real crimes against women in post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on a wide range of crime novels written over the last decade, Binder emphasises the genre’s feminist potential and critically maps its political work at the intersection of gender and race. Her study challenges the perception of crime fiction as a trivial genre and shows how, in South Africa at least, it provides a vibrant platform for social, cultural and ethical debates, exposing violence, misogyny and racism and shedding light on the problematics of law and justice for women faced with crime. Readership: All interested in crime fiction and its gender/racial political potential, its cultural relevance, its ethics and aesthetics, in South Africa and beyond.

Detective and mystery stories, South African (English) --- Women in literature --- Victims of crimes in literature --- Female offenders in literature --- Women detectives in literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Detective and mystery stories, English --- South African detective stories (English) --- South African mystery stories (English) --- South African fiction (English) --- History and criticism --- Female offenders in literature. --- Victims of crimes in literature. --- Women detectives in literature. --- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers --- History and criticism.

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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

Femininity in literature. --- Deviant behavior in literature. --- Female offenders in literature. --- Femininity. --- Deviant behavior. --- Female offenders. --- Hofseth, Brit --- Delinquent women --- Offenders, Female --- Women --- Women criminals --- Women offenders --- Criminals --- Deviancy --- Social deviance --- Human behavior --- Conformity --- Social adjustment --- Femininity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Femininity (Psychology) in literature --- Crime

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The saliency of the nineteenth-century British literary culture stems in part from its place in a politico-legal tradition that produces the very conditions of narrative legal theorists' aspirations for meaningful social transformation in modern, multicultural democracies.

Feminist jurisprudence --- Sex discrimination against women --- Women --- Female offenders in literature. --- Law in literature. --- Law and literature --- Legal stories, English --- English literature --- Feminism, Legal --- Legal feminism --- Feminist theory --- Jurisprudence --- Discrimination against women --- Subordination of women --- Women, Discrimination against --- Feminism --- Sex discrimination --- Women's rights --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Literature and law --- Literature --- English legal stories --- English fiction --- Law and legislation --- History. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- History and criticism.