Cultural constructions of the femme fatale : from Pandora's box to Amanda Knox / by Stevie Simkin, University of Winchester, UK.

The figure of the beautiful but lethal woman has haunted the Western imagination from ancient myth (Pandora, Eve, Lilith) to contemporary cinema. However, there are also remarkable 'real life' cases of women on trial for murder who have been represented as femmes fatales, including Frances...

Full description

Bibliographic Details

Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Simkin, Stevie (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke [England] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Subjects:	Femmes fatales. Women in popular culture. Femmes fatales in literature. Femmes fatales in motion pictures. History.