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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