My Women, My Monsters by Janet Kozachek

“Read this book for the fun of it, and take a good long look at it too. My Women, My Monsters is a joy to behold. Hester Prynne and J. K. Rowling might have created some such monstrous merriment. Miraculously, Janet Kozachek created it all. Erudition, wit, and artistry flow freely on these pages. You may think this book is just a lark. Think again. It is a glorious exorcism.”

–“Larry Rhu, Todd Chair in the Italian Renaissance, Emeritus, University of South Carolina”

“In this book, Janet Kozachek, through her evocative illustrations and often biting poems, removes the lid of the cauldron containing several familiar feminine monsters–monsters that women know from their everyday encounters with other women and also from uncomfortable glances within. Thank you, Janet!”

–Janet A. Walker, Professor of Comparative Literature, Rutgers University

“The women within us and the women of literary and cultural history, with their longings and frustrations, their magnificent madness, spring forth in Janet’s drawings to meet us honestly as our shadow selves.  Our fascination is matched only by our reckoning.”

–Professor Tamara Miles, Poet, Instructor of English and Humanities.  Orangeburg Technical College