Akashic Books
Joyce Carol Oates on Women and the Roots of Body Horror
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Of mythological figures of antiquity, none are more monstrous than harpies, furies, gorgonsโScylla and Charybdis, Lamia, Chimera, Sphinxโnightmare creatures representing, to the affronted male gaze, the perversion of โfemininityโ:…