The complicated history of women being seen as ‘monstrous bitches’ – from ancient Mesopatamia to modern film
Ulysses and the Sirens by John William Waterhouse (1891) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne It’s news to no one that women have been consistently demonised in popular culture for a very, very long time. In her new book, Monstrous Bitch: A History of Terrifying Women, feminist academic Eleanor Johnson takes us on a detailed and delightfully macabre tour of the history of female monstrosity. Johnson maps the 4,000-year-old tradition of framing nonconforming women as murderous, monstrous…
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