Barbara Creed's The Monstrous-Feminine

In The Monstrous-Feminine Barbara Creed introduces a revolutionary view of the representation of female characters in literary work of arts by attempting to challenge the notion that women are rather victims than terrifying, independent and self-conscious protagonists. That is why, in the focus of the book, there are those female figures who are not willing to be victimized but dare to fight for themselves, hence they do not need the help of strong masculine figures. The writer applies psychoanalytic and feminist theories producing groups of female characters according to their monstrous faces based on examples of how they are represented in well-known films like Alien, The Brood, The Hunger, The Exorcist, Sisters, I Spit on Your Grave and