based off of this post

• Barbara Creed’s The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis
  • specifically, the chapter called “Woman As Possessed Monster”
• Aviva Briefel’s Monster Pains: Masochism, Menstruation, and Identification in Horror Film
• April Miller's The Hair That Wasn’t There Before: Demystifying Monstrosity and Menstruation in Ginger Snaps and Ginger Snaps Unleashed
• Bianca Nielson’s "Something’s Wrong, Like More Than You Being Female”: Transgressive Sexuality and Discourses of Reproduction in Ginger Snaps
• Shelley Stamp Lindsey’s "Horror, Femininity, and Carrie’s Monstrous Puberty"
• Carol Clover’s Men, Women, and Chain Saws
• Julia Kristeva’s Powers of Horror: an Essay on Abjection