Women in performing arts, women in movies, monsters, vampire, witch, horrors, films 

pt. I. Faces of the Monstrous-Feminine: Abjection and the Maternal. 1. Kristeva, Femininity, Abjection. 2. Horror and the Archaic Mother: Alien. 3. Woman as Possessed Monster: The Exorcist. 4. Woman as Monstrous Womb: The Brood. 5. Woman as Vampire: The Hunger. 6. Woman as Witch: Carrie -- pt. II. Medusa's Head: Psychoanalytic Theory and the Femme Castratrice. 7. 'Little Hans' Reconsidered: or 'The Tale of Mother's Terrifying Widdler'. 8. Medusa's Head: The Vagina Dentata and Freudian Theory. 9. The Femme Castratrice: I Spit on Your Grave, Sisters. 10. The Castrating Mother: Psycho. 11. The Medusa's Gaze. --pt.III. Revolt of the Monstrous-Feminine: Embracing the Nonhuman. 12. Coming of Age: Ginger Snaps, Teeth, Jennifer's Body. 13. The Monstrous feminine as Sentient Zombie: The Girl with All the Gifts, The Dark, Atlantics. 14. The Monstrous feminine as Uncanny Creatrix: Splice, Evolution, Border, Little Joe, Titane.