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64 THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF
The special beauty of the werewolf is that while, like all monsters,
it draws attention to the ways in which reality and subjectivity are
produced in modernity, it also models very clearly and self-consciously
how oppositional concepts are integrated into that process. Because
differing incarnations of the werewolf clearly delineate sociological
approaches to the construction of identity and social reality from
psychological processes of subject formation, the werewolf also helps
to elaborate how the production of ‘reality’ and subjectivity has been
related. Further, because the werewolf has been increasingly imagined
as male, it also brings into focus the gendered nature of this process,
a theme that the following chapter will explore.