Women in popular culture

Funny, smart, and encyclopaedic, nimbly addressing everyone from the biblical Lilith, to the movie Carrie, this book is dedicated to exploring the female dark side, as represented in female monsters throughout pop culture. These monsters express taboo truths about female life, and femininity. The...

From our first days on Earth, we're taught what it means to be a Good Girl. Look good, be nice, stay quiet, and take care of everyone else. The list goes on, and at the heart of it all, one message shines through: Do as you're told or pay the price. In 'Good Girl Deprogramming', Michelle shines a...

We all know who 'the girl' is. She holds the hero's hand as he runs through the Pyramids, chasing robots. Or she nags him, or foils him, plays the uptight straight man to his charming loser. She's idealised, degraded, dismissed, objectified and almost always dehumanised. How do we process these i...