This provocative book amounts to an alternative history of Western attitudes to women and power.
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements1Beginning12The Gorgeous Gorgon: Women and Power in the Myths of Judith33Her Virtue Was Vice: Christian Allegory and the Selling of Sex244Worshipping Women: The Battle of the Sexes in Reformation Europe465The Monstrous Regiment of Judiths: Power and Gender in the Renaissance676Hanging's Too Good for Her: Assassins, Tyrants and Executioners877The Dark Angel: Romantic Criminals and Oriental Others1208Judy and Punch: Marriage and 'Fallen Women'1359Reader, I Murdered Him: Criminality and the Uncanny15010Framing the Femme Fatale: Sexology in the Fin de Siecle17311Judith's List: Identity and the Final Solution19812Woman with a Gun: Terrorism, Power and Paranoia21013Judith the Ripper: Feminists and Serial Killers235Notes253Index267