Monstrous feminine

1: The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis - Barbara Creed 2: Why Are There No Great Female Werewolves? 3: Why Female Cannibals Frighten and Fascinate

Barbara Creed; Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection, Screen, Volume 27, Issue 1, 1 January 1986, Pages 44–71, https://doi.org/10.1093/

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Amazon.com: Return of the Monstrous-Feminine: 9780367478162: Creed, Barbara: Books

Amazon.com: The Monstrous-Feminine (Popular Fictions Series): 9780415052597: Creed, Barbara: Books

The female ghost is a particularly enduring image, one that crosses borders and has spawned icons of horror films. These ghosts are usually long-haired, slender, and wearing dresses—their horror is practically hinged on these classic symbols of femininity, as though that in itself is shorthand: this is a woman with fury and bloodlust but none […]

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