The Female Werewolf: The Wolf, the Woman, and the Dunce Outcast

This creative thesis blends literary theory, popular culture, and personal anecdote to create an analysis of feminist and disability rage through recent narratives of female werewolves. The form consists of paragraphs cycling among these three categories in a way that aims to be disruptive and without rhythm to create the sensation of transformation. These stylistic choices work together with the contents of the thesis to push thought forward regarding the absence of women’s presence within the depiction of the werewolves, which has traditionally been a male-focused image. The thesis aims to analyze not only the absence of women from the werewolf narrative, but also the significations of female werewolves as they have begun to emerge as protagonists of young adult and adult fiction within the last two decades and have pushed more and more into the mainstream with the themes of rage and disability surrounding their “monstrous” embodiment.