The virgin-turned-vampire is an ancient misogynist mythic figure

Evidence

Sufiya becomes the oldest of the misogynist myths: the virgin who is really a vampire, the irresistible temptress who seduces men in order to kill them, not an object of male manipulation but a devourer of hapless men. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 253

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s work on shame as a gendered attribute and to the ‘shame is woman’ gendering discussion.