# Monstrous Teen Girls: Peers and Periods in Carrie and Jennifer's Body

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Language: en

Published: 2026-06-14T17:16:27+00:00

Source creator: The Monster & The Child

Duration: 3401 seconds

## Description

In horror fiction, the truism "hell is high school" has a long history of being made literal. Today we look at the bodily abjection and the complex social worlds of two infamous monstrous teen girls: Carrie White and Jennifer Check. How do gender and age intersect in the monstrosity of these two horror icons? 

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
03:28 - Plug It Up: Embodied Monstrosity
28:43 - High School Evil: The Social Worlds of Teen Girl Monsters
51:41 - Conclusion

Transcript: https://kathleenwriting.com/2026/06/14/transcript-monstrous-teen-girls-peers-and-periods-in-carrie-and-jennifers-body/

Media discussed:
- Carrie by Stephen King (1974)
- Carrie, dir. Brian de Palma (1976)
- Jennifer's Body, dir. Karyn Kusama (2009)

References:
- Creed, B. (1993). The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. Routledge.
- Kristeva, J. (1982). Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Columbia University Press. 
- Paszkiewicz, K. (2019). Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers. Edinburgh University Press. 
- Pulliam, J. (2014). Monstrous Bodies: Feminine Power in Young Adult Horror Fiction. McFarland.
- Schillace, B. & Wood, A. (2014). Introduction: Our Monstrous Ways. In B. Schillace & A. Wood (Eds.), Unnatural Reproductions and Monstrosity: The Birth of the Monster in Literature, Film, and Media, Cambria Press, pp. 1-11.

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