The book begins with a description of traditional views of evil. These, 1 will argue, are not only male but masculine in the sense that they maintain and even glorify traits and opinions that have been genderized in favor of males. It is impossible in a work aimed at developing a female morality of evil to describe fully every view of evil that has influenced our culture. I have chosen those that seem most prominent and familiar. A trained theologian would almost certainly go at the task somewhat differently and with considerably more sophistication, but: it is not ray purpose to repair faulty theology. Rather, I want to lay out the view that has contributed to continuing strife among human beings and, especially, to the devaluation and distrust of women