Acknowledgments -- Part One -- 1. When the Woman Looks (Linda Williams) -- 2. Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection (Barbara Creed) -- 3. Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film (Carol J. Clover) -- 4. The Monster and the Homosexual (Harry M. Benshoff) -- Part Two -- 5. "It Will Thrill You, It May Shock You, It Might Even Horrify You": Gender, Reception, and Classic Horror Cinema (Rhona J. Berenstein) -- 6. Bringing It All Back Home: Family Economy and Generic Exchange (Vivian Sobchack) -- 7. Trying to Survive on the Darker Side: 1980s Family Horror (Tony Williams) -- 8. Genre, Gender, and the Aliens Trilogy (Thomas Doherty) -- 9. Taking Back the Night of the Living Dead: George Romero, Feminism, and the Horror Film (Barry Keith Grant) -- 10. Gender, Genre, Argento (Adam Knee) -- 11. "Beyond the Veil of the Flesh": Cronenberg and the Disembodiment of Horror (Lianne McLarty) -- 12. The Horror Film in Neoconservative Culture (Christopher Sharrett) -- Torture Porn and Uneasy Feminisms:Rethinking (Wo)men in Eli Roth's Hostel FilmsMaisha Wester -- Part Three -- 14. Horror, Femininity, and Carrie's Monstrous Puberty (Shelley Stamp) -- 15. The Monster as Woman: Two Generations of Cat People (Karen Hollinger) -- 16. Here Comes the Bride: Wedding Gender and Race in Bride of Frankenstein (Elizabeth Young) -- 17. Burying the Undead: The Use and Obsolescence of Count Dracula (Robin Wood) -- 18. Old Times in Werewolf of London (Robert Spadoni) -- 19. Daughters of Darkness: The Lesbian Vampire on Film (Bonnie Zimmerman) -- 20. Birth Traumas: Parturition and Horror in Rosemary's Baby (Lucy Fischer) -- 21. The Place of Passion: Reflections on Fatal Attraction (James Conlon) -- 22. Feminine Horror: The Embodied Surrealism of In My Skin (Adam Lowenstein) -- 23. Uncanny Horrors: Male Rape in Twentynine Palms (Lisa Coulthard).

Selected Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.