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Gabriela Schalow Adler earned a PhD in English from the University of Rhode Island and is currently an adjunct professor in the English Department at Bristol Community College in Fall River, Massachusetts.

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Cassie Carter is a lecturer in the Department of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University. This essay is adapted from her doctoral dissertation of the same title. She invites comments and questions from visitors to this site, who may write her directly at: carterca@pilot.msu.edu

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Barbara Creed lectures in Cinema Studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne. She is the author of The Monstrous Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 1993).

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Vivian Sobchack is Associate Dean of the School of Theater, Film, and Television at UCLA. She is the author of The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience (Princeton, 1992) and editor of The Persistance of History: Cinema, Television and the Modern Event.. "The Leech Woman's Revenge" appears in Uncontrollable Bodies: Testimonies of Identity and Culture, ed. by Rodney Sappington and Tyler Stallings (Bay Press 1994).

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Linda Williams is Professor of Film Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She recently edited Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film (Rutgers, 1995) and is the author of Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the 'Frenzy of the Visible' (California, 1989).

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