On 1 March 2026, my new book will be published. It is called: Five Evil Women: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker (Reaktion Books). So, I have decided to re-post a few talks I gave on 'evil women'. These are some of the women who did not make it into the book version. The woman for today is Eve. According to Jewish and Christian Creation myth, Eve introduced evil into Paradise, leading to the banishment of humanity (and, indeed, all life) from the Garden of Eden. There

Evil women. This is the first of a series of blogs about evil women, so, before turning to Eve’s evil legacies, I want to draw attention to the difficulties and tensions involved in presenting a series of blogs on ‘Evil Women’. What is meant by ‘evil’ and ‘women’, and what happens when these two concepts are placed together? Two questions immediately arise. First, what do we mean when we talk about ‘evil’? This will be developed and elaborated in this series of blogs. Brie