Mike,
 
You may have already found this link to a paper by Barbara Creed called
Baby Bitches from Hell: Monstrous-Little Women in Film. There's also an
interesting one by Vivian Sobchack on The Leech Woman.
 
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/women/papers.html
 
regards,
 
Kate Butler
RMIT University
Australia
 
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