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Black Sunday, the Vampire Lovers, Twins of Evil, Blood and Roses, Kill, Baby, Kill!, Carrie, the Gorgon, Psycho, Friday the 13th, Lair of the White Worm, H.G Lewis' the Gore Gore Girls is a perverse examination of feminism and misogyny with a heartily burlesqued group of early feminists.
There is a book called Vamps, but I sadly do not recall the author. Karl Jung's Aspects of the Feminine and Robert Graves' the White Goddess are also good places to look and, if you can bare the lack of knowledge of world mythology, cliche apologist claptrap and half baked rantings about Emily Dickinson, Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae might provide a molecule of truth within it's insufferable sea of crap. Female vampires are also much more than anti-feminist propaganda from frightened males. There is far more to it and I suggest you not fall for such intellectual pratfalls. These stories have been around since long before the invention of films. Perhaps they were in some way a reaction to feminism, but feminism merely brought out some more primal fears of reclaimed sexual power. In some ways, these films are an acknowledgement of power regained, not just simpering castration anxiety as Freudian Marxist ivory tower retards would tell you.
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