Women are not expected to behave in aberrant or illegal ways and we will consider the structural and systemic reasons for the heightened interest, repulsion, condemnation – and even hatred – that feminine transgression generates. In grappling with our understanding of what it is to be ‘evil’, the project aims to shine a spotlight on this dark area of the human condition and explore the possible sources of the fear and resentment of women. Mistrusted as seductive and beguiling, women are also often thought of as vengeful, manipulative and even malevolent. While ideals of purity and dedication to family have been exalted and feminine beauty lauded, women have also been viewed as embodying sinister forces of evil. In many cultures, women have been long suspected as the source of sundry human miseries, however basic to society they may be.
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