We discuss "Her Body and Other Parties," the collection of short stories by Carmen Maria Machado, and grapple with its ideas of embodiment, revising the horror genre, and society's treatment of women's bodies and desires.Cited in this episode:Butler, Judith. "Imitation and Gender Insubordination" - https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=COIvCgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT381&dq=Imitation+and+Gender+Insubordination+judith+butler&ots=3aVfUD7q7I&sig=oZ9GVFSUiw_P1p6uamrz_ETSYNE#v=onepage&q=Imitation%20and%20Gender%20Insubordination%20judith%20butler&f=falseGilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar. “Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship. ” The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination - https://www.amazon.com/Madwoman-Attic-Nineteenth-Century-Literary-Imagination/dp/0300084587Epstein, March J. "Consuming Performances: Eating Acts and Feminist Embodiment" - https://www.jstor.org/stable/1146588Price, Janet and Margrit Shildrick "Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader" - https://books.google.com/books/about/Feminist_Theory_and_the_Body.html?id=aBRUjxPk_YUCSpelman, Elizabeth V. "Woman as Body: Ancient and Contemporary Views" - https://www.jstor.org/stable/3177582The music used in this episode is "Lost Souls" by Portrayal https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Portrayal/20181230154516502/Portrayal_-_Lost_Souls used under an attribution license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/