Arguably, these images can be read by women as speaking to their anger and perhaps disappointment at what feminist movements have failed to achieve. In recent years, women have carried out their fantasies on the living bodies of men: Lorena Bobitt achieved fame in her celebrated actual castration, as did Amy Fisher in her shooting of Mrs Buttafuco.? While Susan Smith’s murder of her children is of a different order, nevertheless we were given to understand that her tremendous rage at her husband and her abusive father might have been behind her actions. Women are angrier than ever, partly because of the expectations that feminists of earlier decades promised: they now want explicit fantasies of women overcoming weak, stupid and oppressive men.