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This book offers an analysis of women in horror films through an exploration of 'gynaehorror': films concerned with all aspects of female reproductive horror. Some of the topics include: the intersection of horror, monstrosity and sexual difference; the relationships between normative female sexuality and the twin figures of the chaste virgin and the voracious vagina dentata; embodiment and subjectivity in horror films about pregnancy and abortion; reproductive technologies, monstrosity and 'mad science'; the discursive construction and interrogation of monstrous motherhood; and the…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This book offers an analysis of women in horror films through an exploration of 'gynaehorror': films concerned with all aspects of female reproductive horror. Some of the topics include: the intersection of horror, monstrosity and sexual difference; the relationships between normative female sexuality and the twin figures of the chaste virgin and the voracious vagina dentata; embodiment and subjectivity in horror films about pregnancy and abortion; reproductive technologies, monstrosity and 'mad science'; the discursive construction and interrogation of monstrous motherhood; and the relationships between menopause, menstruation, hagsploitation and 'abject barren' bodies in horror.
Autorenporträt
Erin Harrington is Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at The University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Rezensionen
"it's a fascinating and feminist look at gynaehorror, and one that's highly recommended"
Octavia Cade, Strange Horizons
"it's a fascinating and feminist look at gynaehorror, and one that's highly recommended"
Octavia Cade, Strange Horizons