How does Eva fit the description of "outlaw woman"?

Morrison uses the term "outlaw woman" to describe women who live outside of societal boundaries and traditional expectations, choosing instead, to act independently and according to their own wishes. Eva fills this role in that she chooses to raise her children on her own after being abandoned by her husband, she is independent, and she acts in ways that many might consider cruel and unreasonable. Example; she burns her son, Plum, alive because she does not want him suffer a lifetime of pain.