Unbecoming female monsters : witches, vampires, and virgins / Cristina Santos.

This book traces the construct of female monsters as an embodiment of sociocultural fears of female sexuality and reproductive powers. Santos examines the female sexual maturation cycle and the various archetypes of female monsters associated with each stage of sexual development as seen in literatu...

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Main Author: Santos, Cristina, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
Series:Latin American gender and sexualities.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Introduction -- Turning back the clock : "modern" virginities -- Breaking in vs. breaking out : negotiating the transition from girlhood to womanhood -- Maligned mother(hood)s -- Fairy tale witches and much more -- Life isn't a fairy tale and I'm no princess : the case of countess Elizabeth Bathory -- Epilogue -- Works cited -- Filmography -- About the author. 
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