Whatever wickedness is supposedly being punished in a particular case, there will be perpetrators of the same wickedness who escape punishment.
These women infringed cultural norms, played out their ' wickedness ' and exhibited considerable mobility in their search for more meaningful existences.
This welcome collection of essays uses the idea of ' wickedness ' as an analytical category to expose processes of political, economic and social construction and change.
The focus is not on ' wicked behaviour ' (whatever that might be) but on ascriptions of ' wickedness ', and specifically claims about ' wicked ' behaviour by women.
Ascriptions of female wickedness simultaneously reflect male strategies for controlling women and widespread anxiety about social transformation.
In the novels, a planter not only protected his dependants from wicked influences, he regulated those who committed the wickedness.
If ' wickedness ' meant a greater openness to divorce, then men appeared as wicked as women.
It was horror at such wickedness that first checked him, and brought him back to the combat.
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