Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires and Virgins

by Cristina Santos

Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires, and Virgins is a multi-cultural and interdisciplinary work that traces the construct of female monsters as an embodiment of socio-cultural fears of female sexuality and reproductive powers. This book examines the female sexual maturation cycle and the various archetypes of female monsters associated with each stage of sexual development as seen in literature, art, film, television, and popular culture. Recommended for scholars of Latin American studies, literature, cultural studies, women and gender studies, popular culture, and film studies.

Genres: Nonfiction

204 pages, Hardcover

Published December 7, 2016

Reviews

[Trauermaerchen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall, this was pretty good – I thought the topic as well as the points the author was making were quite interesting and generally well made.

I will say I found it to be a bit one note and disconnected within itself – there was a huge chunk about Once Upon A Time that was disconnected from the beginning and the end of the book which meant this neither gives an overview nor does it focus on one thing specifically so it was just trying to be too entirely different things at once.
The overarching topic got lost a lot.

I still thought this was worth the read but I wish the structure was better as it would've made the book stronger overall.

3.5/5⭐