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Wanting Beauty, Fearing Beauty: Mate Preference, Intimacy, Deception, and the Femme Fatale
Social SciencesThis paper examines the cross-cultural prevalence of the femme fatale (dangerous woman) motif using folkloric materials, ethnographic accounts, and consultations with ethnographers across 84 societies.
William Jankowiak
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Épiphanies du pathein. Le corps de la femme en tant qu’espace de la haine
Revue Italienne d'Etudes Françaises, 2017 En ouvrant la voie à l’une des périodes les plus misogynes de sa culture, le XIXe siècle français – au-delà du stéréotype de la femme fatale, célébration hypocritement rhétorique – élabore une haine dont l’objet est le corps de la femme : ce dernier ...
Franca Franchi
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“I Think I Need to Kill You”: The New Woman Assassin in Hanna and Killing Eve
The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 59, Issue 1, Page 38-45, February 2026.ABSTRACT Killing Eve and Hanna feature women assassins, who are examined here in the context of the action woman, arguing that the depiction of women action in these two series marks a departure from traditional iterations of this and related character tropes.
Cornelia Klecker
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Rare Lung Diseases I – Lymphangioleiomyomatosis
Canadian Respiratory Journal, Volume 13, Issue 7, Page 375-380, 2006., 2006 The present article is the first in a series that will review selected rare lung diseases. The objective of this series is to promote a greater understanding and awareness of these unusual conditions among respirologists. Each article will begin with a case that serves as a focal point for a discussion of the pathophysiology and management of the ...
Stephen C Juvet +2 more
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La Mujer Fatal en la Ópera [PDF]
, 2009 This article studies some of the most remarkable female roles in opera repertoire: Manon, Carmen, Dalila, Mélisande, Salomé and Lulú, exploring the similarities that can be found among them at different levels, despite the disparity of their literary ...
Torreblanca López, Carmen
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Alternative Francophone, 2016 Cet article s’intéresse à la réécriture du roman d'Alexandre Dumas, Les Trois mousquetaires, effectuée par Agnès Maupré à travers la bande dessinée Milady de Winter.
Sophie Bonadè
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The Poetry of Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Same Femme, Different Fate [PDF]
, 2017 Siblings Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti both lived during the Victorian era and wrote poetry which epitomizes the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
Kirsch, Carolyn A.
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Pedro Almodóvar and Icíar Bollaín on Gender Violence in Spanish Cinema [PDF]
, 2020 This study sought to determine whether Franco-period conservatism and traditionalist values played a role in the portrayal of women, as well as gender violence, in the post-Transition cinema of Pedro Almodóvar and Icíar Bollaín.
Shapiro, Emily Rose
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What's in a name? the UK newspapers' fabrication and commodification of Foxy Knoxy [PDF]
, 2016 This chapter analyses how, immediately after the arrest of Amanda Knox, the UK’s national press played a pivotal role in transforming the American student into ‘Foxy Knoxy’, the duplicitous, psychologically disturbed femme fatale who orchestrated and ...
Goluandris, A., McLaughlin, E.
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FROM TRASH TO TREASURE: RILKE AND VENICE REVISITED
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 127-193, April 2025.ABSTRACT Rilke loved Venice and visited or passed through a dozen times between 1897 and 1920. He wrote extensively about the city in prose and verse between 1898 and 1908, including a cycle of poems in the Neue Gedichte and a polemical ‘Aufzeichnung’ in Malte Laurids Brigge.
Robert Vilain
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