Supernatural Mothers and Wombs of Discontent: Exploring Horror's Deviant Reproductions - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ruth Barratt-Peacock, Lorna Piatti-FarnellSeries:Research in Horror StudiesTheme:Sex & Gender/FemininePublish date:10/1/2026Pages:232
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9798216365716UPC:9798216365716Book Category:Performing Arts, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Film, Gender Studies, Women's StudiesBook Topic:GenresSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.472Product ID:SC5EQ8AFGS
An interdisciplinary and international roster of contributors discuss the womb and the mother as separate sources of supernatural reproduction in horror media, arguing that the alchemy of pregnancy and birth warrants a sustained examination of supernatural motherhood in diverse contexts.
From television shows like WandaVision and films like The Witch (2015) to novels like Toni Morrison's Beloved and Salman Rushdie's Victory City, contributors analyze a variety of horror media texts, identifying and unpacking key themes including the monstrous feminine, gynae horror, and magical motherhood. As narratives foregrounding the Othering of the mother figure emerge from these texts on a broader scale, the volume ultimately brings these wide-ranging explorations together to interrogate motherhood as an expression of systemic power relations, positing that the supernatural functions as a foil against which the social constructions of birth, birthing, and motherhood may be reconsidered and perhaps even redefined.Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9798216365716UPC:9798216365716Book Category:Performing Arts, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Film, Gender Studies, Women's StudiesBook Topic:GenresSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.472Product ID:SC5EQ8AFGS
Ruth Barratt-Peacock is an Australian literary studies scholar and musicologist.
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