Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Il mostruoso femminile. Il patriarcato e la paura delle donne, 2021

If a monster is a body that is frightening because it is out of control, a monstrous woman is a woman who is free of man’s control. “The Monstrous Feminine” is an essay on the savage nature of femininity, travelling between myth and literature, crime news and horror films, showing the primordial fear that patriarchy has always had of women. From “The Exorcist” to the Babylonian goddess Tiamat, from the biblical Lilith to “Young Witches”, through legends and forgotten lives, Jude Ellison S. Doyle takes a journey to discover the dark power of women, reclaiming horror as a creative force, capable of breaking the millenary chains of patriarchal oppression.