Violence and the Female ImaginationIn the past twenty years Quebec women writers, including Aline Chamberland, Claire D, Suzanne Jacob, and Hlne Rioux, have created female characters who are fascinated with bold sexual actions and language, cruelty, and violence, at times culminating in infanticide and serial killing. Paula Ruth Gilbert argues that these Quebec feminist writers are "re framing" gender. Violence and the Female Imagination explores whether these imagined women are