By Cristina Santos

Unbecoming girl Monsters: Witches, Vampires, and Virgins is a multi-cultural and interdisciplinary paintings that lines the build of lady monsters as an embodiment of socio-cultural fears of woman sexuality and reproductive powers. This ebook examines the feminine sexual maturation cycle and a few of the archetypes of girl monsters linked to each one level of sexual improvement as visible in literature, artwork, movie, tv, and pop culture. urged for students of Latin American stories, literature, cultural reports, ladies and gender stories, pop culture, and picture studies.

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