TY  - BOOK
AU  - DiGioia,Amanda
TI  - Childbirth and parenting in horror texts: the marginalized and the monstrous 
T2  - Emerald studies in alternativity and marginalization
SN  - 9781787148819
AV  - PN56.H6 D54 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Bingley, U.K.
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
KW  - Horror in literature
KW  - Mothers in literature
KW  - Fathers in literature
KW  - Social Science
KW  - Gender Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Horror & ghost stories
KW  - bicssc
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - This book examines childbirth and parenting in horror texts. By analysing new texts, and re-analysing commonly used texts with new feminist methodology, this study provides a unique contribution to the fields of gender and horror studies. Focusing on horror fiction and film, this book reviews textual treatments of birth and motherhood, and how they differ from representations of fatherhood.  Motherhood and birth are represented as revolting in several ways.  Mothers in horror do not fulfil their gender role, and the neglect of motherhood by a woman is deemed horrific because it is the antithesis of Western patriarchal ideals of female identity.  These mothers are unforgiven. Bad fathers, in contrast, are given moments of restoration that allow audiences or readers to feel immediate sympathy for them.  Examining conception, birth, motherhood and fathers, this work provides a unique exploration of the monstrous and the marginalized within the horror genre
UR  - https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781787148819
ER  -