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An advanced copy of Scream with Me! Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism by Eleanor Johnson found me in the simmering heat of summer 2025, just in time for Independence Day. I tore into the analytical text, which dissects the congruence between the American second-wave feminist movement and a canon of thematically parallel horror films. I read of Rosemary’s Baby , in which the titular protagonist is forced to give birth to the antichrist. I read about the women of The Stepford Wive s, whose husbands team up to replace them with subservient robot slaves. These stories sounded eerily reflective of issues women are witnessing now, years after these films we

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