Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Regendering Violence and Appropriating Power: Beyond the Binary -- 1 Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Violence and Gender: From "Real Life" to Theory to Literary Representation -- 2 Living Together in North America: Canada, Quebec, and the United States -- 3 Who's the Subject Now? The Female Imagination and Representations of Sex and Violence -- 4 Public and Private Violence: The Novels of Infanticide/Filicide of Aline Chamberland and Suzanne Jacob -- 5 Regendering and Female Serial Killing in the Fiction of Hélène Rioux, Anne Dandurand, and Claire Dé -- Conclusion: Women Imitating Men or the Feminization of Violence? Re-Framing Gender in North American Cultures -- Notes -- Works Cited and Consulted -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.