Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film

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.