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What does the term "Female gothic" really mean?

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Posted by ana1352 on April 28, 2009 at 12:47 AM and tagged with female gothic, meaning

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This term was coined by Ellen Moers wrote  in Literary Women in 1977; she laid the foundation for a new way of thinking about women and the Gothic...

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Posted by marilynn07 on May 11, 2009 at 7:51 PM

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