Wowsa, so if Barbara Creed had been writing the Monstrous Feminine now, this book would get a whoooooole lotta mentions. It’s dripping with sex and violence, and body horror, and the monstrousness of female power, and what powerlessness can do, and hatred, self, loathing, and dang, girl!
I especially find it interesting that insects are the chosen “monsters” given that the females of the species are often the most powerful, and the most dangerous. Creed even has a whole thing in her book about the Freudian fear have that women will devour them after sex.
Plus the incredible beauty of the women transformed into the monstrous and abject, oh! And the fact that two women create a child together!

Bennett, I hope many, many literature and gender studies students write papers on this book.
High five

Another tale of great imagination from Marguerite Bennett. A great read with beautiful illustrations.