Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction (Tiina Mäntymäki, Marinella Rodi-Risberg, Anna Foka) -- Deviant Women: Socio-Cultural Perspectives -- Towards a Definition of Deviance -- Narrative as a Conceptual Starting Point/Perspective -- Past Scholarship, Contents and Purpose of the Volume -- Reconstructing Narratives of Female Deviance -- Works Cited -- I. Deviance: Historical and Cultural Perspectives -- Beyond Deviant: Theodora as the Other in Byzantine Imperial Historiography (Anna Foka) -- Introduction -- Theodora: Byzantine Context, Social Norm and Deviance -- Lust: Actress and Prostitute -- The Villain: Cruelty and Violence -- Conclusions: Sexuality, Violence, Manipulation and Power = Social Deviance? -- Works Cited -- Ghosts and Spirits as the objet a in Pu Songling's Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio (Wang Lei) -- Introduction -- The Polyvalent objet a -- The 'Scholar' as the Parodic Phallus -- Volatile and Versatile Ghosts and Spirits -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Deviant Will to Knowledge: The Pandora Myth and Its Feminist Revisions (Sanna Karkulehto and Ilmari Leppihalme) -- Introduction -- 'I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing'. The Pandora Myth as an Epistemological Cautio -- 'Familiarity in the unfamiliar'. The Freudian Mystery and the Threat of Pandora -- 'Who or what is behind this ... flesh?' The Female Body and Will to Knowledge -- '[If] she opened this thing?' Pandora and Epistemology of the Closet -- Pandora as a Metaphor of Feminist Thought -- Works Cited -- II. Contemporaneity, Deviance, Subjectivity and Violence -- Carnivalesque Masquerade. Lisbeth Salander and Her Trickster Agency (Tiina Mäntymäki) -- Introduction -- The Carnivalesque, the Trickster and Lisbeth Salander -- Lisbeth Salander Becomes a Trickster Figure -- Tricking as Carnivalesque.

The Dissolution of the Trickster and the End of the Carnivalesque -- Conclusions -- Works Cited -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Trauma and Contextual Factors in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees: Incest, Race and Gendered Subjectivities (Marinella Rodi-Risberg) -- Trauma in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees -- Trauma and Contextual Factors -- Incest, Race and Transgressive Desire -- Trauma, Memory and the Rearticulation of Subjectivity -- The Ethics of (Reading) Trauma -- Works Cited -- 'Baby Killer!' - Media Constructions of a Culturally Congruent Identity for Casey Anthony as Mother and Female Offender (Caroline Enberg) -- Introduction -- Media Representations of Female Violence -- Good Motherhood and Murder -- Casey Anthony breaking the norms of motherhood -- Indulgence -- Neglect -- Anthony's Self-Representation -- Public Opinion -- Conclusions -- Works Cited -- Primary sources -- Secondary Sources -- III. Deviance and/as (In)visibility -- The Absent Female Rotarian in Finland: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Rotary Norden (Maj­Britt Höglund) -- Introduction -- Women and Rotary -- Rotary Norden -- Multimodal Discourse Analysis and Ideology -- Repertoires as Systems of Meaning -- The Repertoire of Brotherhood -- The Repertoire of Brotherhood in Headlines: Rotary Brothers Gone Golfing - and Motoring -- The Repertoire of Brotherhood in Text: Club Camaraderie -- The Repertoire of Brotherhood in Photographs: Women in a Modest Role -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- A Deviant in the Arctic (Anka Ryall) -- Introduction -- Ladies on Board -- Death of a Deviant -- All Flags Flying -- The 'Real' Brit -- Coda -- Note -- Works Cited -- 'Foremost in Violence and Ferocity': Women Singing at Work in Britain -- Introduction -- The Invisibility of Women's Working Songs -- Transgressive Gender: Productive and Repetitive Labour.

Practices of Exclusion -- Women and Clamour -- Appropriating Space -- Conclusions -- Works Cited -- 'Threshing in the Haggard to her Heart's Delight': Women and Erotic Expression in Irish Traditional Song (Róisín Ní Ghallóglaigh and Sandra Joyce) -- Introduction -- Agricultural Metaphor in An Staicín Eorna -- Occupational Metaphor in An tSeanbhean Bhocht -- Reflections of Gender and Deviance in Irish Traditional Erotic Song -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index.