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The “Witch’s Mark” – Rethinking Monstrous Breasts

Autori
Musap, Emilia

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Skup
Breaking Stereotypes in American Popular Culture

Mjesto i datum
Osijek, Hrvatska, 09.09.2022. - 10.09.2022

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Ključne riječi
witch, monnstrosity, breasts

Sažetak
Based on scholars such as Barbara Creed and Marion Yalom, it is clear that the perception and subsequent portrayal of witches’ breasts in popular culture were influenced by the infamous trials and have changed little over the centuries. The breasts of an aging witch are still portrayed as decaying, deflated, and sagging and, in line with Jane M. Ussher, can be said to embody "the epitome of the abject" (118). Conversely, the breasts of the coming-of-age witch stand in stark visual contrast to the stereotypically conceived breasts of the woman who is past her reproductive prime. However, using contemporary narratives such as The Witch (2015) and The Neon Demon (2016) as examples, this paper will argue that while the breasts of the coming-of-age witch are eroticized since such breasts, as Gripsrud et al. argue, conform to "the gendered economy of vision" (216), they nonetheless embody a different set of anxieties that mark them as monstrous.

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Engleski

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Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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