The politics of monsters: Monsters have served variously as projections of our fears, markers of difference, vehicles for 'othering' and icons of pop-cultural rebellion.

The article discusses the history of monsters in the works of the author Pliny including the Hippopodes, Panotii, and Cynocephali and highlights the use of childbirth defects as a form of monstrous births due to displeasure from God. Topics discussed include the symbolism of monsters as temptation in Christian iconography, the modern history of monsters through the depiction of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and the depiction of enemies as monsters by the Nazis.