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Monstrous Bodies: Feminine Power Young Adult Horror Fiction
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Monstrous Bodies: Feminine Power Young Adult Horror Fiction
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Monstrous Bodies: Feminine Power Young Adult Horror Fiction
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Recent works of young adult fantastic fiction such as Stephenie Meyer's
have been criticized for glamorizing feminine subordination. But YA horror fiction with female protagonists who have paranormal abilities suggests a resistance to restrictive gender roles. The "monstrous Other" is a double with a difference, a metaphor of the Western adolescent girl pressured to embody an untenable doll-like feminine ideal. This book examines what each of three types of female monstrous Others in young adult fiction--the haunted girl, the female werewolf and the witch--has to tell us about feminine subordination in a supposedly post-feminist world, where girls continue to be pressured to silence their voices and stifle their desires.