Women as angel, women as evil: interrogating the boundaries. [Introduction]

Abstract

The chapters collected in this volume are only a small sampling of the fruit which carne out ofthe Evil, Women and the Feminine conference held in Prague in May 2010, hosted by the Inter-Disciplinary.Net. Our hopes are to bring together sorne of the chapters, in expanded form, which seemed, without previous planning, to speak to each other during the conference and which, herein, more directiy engage with one another, opening up a space for dialogue and interaction. While we have divided the work into four sections, they are not discrete boundaries but, we hope, they work together to elicit an interdisciplinary approach to our understandings of women who push the limits of 'the feminine.'