Heartbreakers: Women and Violence in Contemporary Culture and Literature - Softcover

Hendin, J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1403971323 ISBN 13: 9781403971326

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

From Medea to Goneril to Sharon Stone's ice-pick murderer, the violent woman has fascinated readers and audiences. Josephine Hendin looks at this figure and argues that a violent woman is a grenade pitched toward both conservative and liberal views of women.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1403971323
• ISBN 13: 9781403971326
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320