The passage of monsters found in classical mythology to Latin America began with Christopher Columbus’s first account of man-eaters and warrior women among the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean.

We love Scotland for the things that make it feel eternal: the heathered hills, the bagpipes that sound like ghosts calling across the glens, and the whisky that burns slow and warm like memory itself ...

Introduction : tracing the goddess/facing the monster -- Jaws as patriarchal myth -- Sleeping with the enemy as Pretty woman part II? -- Femme noire (with Lauri Sagle) -- The pornography of everyday ...