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Pages: 312
Authors: Marilyn Francus
Categories: Literary Criticism
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Spectral and monstrous mothers populate the cultural and literary landscape of the eighteenth century, overturning scholarly assumptions about this being an era
The Monster Within
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Barbara Almond
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-04 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Mixed feelings about motherhood—uncertainty over having a child, fears of pregnancy and childbirth, or negative thoughts about one’s own children—are not
Monstrous Mothers: Troubling Tropes
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Andrea O'Reilly
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-01 - Publisher: Demeter Press

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Motherhood is one of those roles that assumes an almost-outsized cultural importance in the significance we force it to bear. It becomes both the source of and
Animal Wife
Language: en
Pages: 137
Authors: Lara Ehrlich
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-08 - Publisher: Red Hen Press

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In this award-winning debut collection, fifteen magical realism stories portray girls and women searching for an escape from their everyday lives. “In village
The Monstrous-Feminine
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Barbara Creed
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-04 - Publisher: Routledge

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In almost all critical writings on the horror film, woman is conceptualised only as victim. In The Monstrous-Feminine Barbara Creed challenges this patriarchal