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 ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.