Emerald Interdisciplinary Connexions Ser.: Divergent Women : ...

Emerald Publishing Limited

Divergent WomenInterdisciplinary Perspectives on Female Deviance and Dissent\nAuthor(s): Lorraine Rumson, Abby Bentham\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, United Kingdom\nImprint: Emerald Publishing Limited\nISBN-13: 9781801176798, 978-1801176798\nSynopsis\nA good woman is hard to find. To be good, after all, women face expectations that are shifting, internally contradictory, emotionally extreme, and prospectively even deadly. To be divergent, on the other hand, is an expansive position, encompassing cackling witches, childfree women, struggling mothers, insecure teenagers, and persecuted innocents. Exploring divergent women from a variety of critical and creative perspectives, this edited collection puts forth a dialogic discussion of how non-conforming women are coded as evil, and asks, what happens when women choose to be divergent?\n\nDelving into reflective and auto-ethnographic perspectives which explore subjective responses to the influence of the repres.