The fear of our bodies as mutating, monstrous death traps is a cultural obsession with a lineage stretching back far further than Cronenberg. Plato called the body a tomb and a prison, Medieval Christians likened it to a sack of worms; while the Buddha is said to have urged his followers to scorn it as a diseased mass of wounds. Simultaneously, women have been categorized as the corporeal class, more fleshly – and more deathly – than the male. Why has the horrific body been women's burden to bear, and how has the charge of female bodiliness been used to justify social inequality, exploitation, and violence? This talk will offer a radical feminist dissection of the body horror that plagues manmade culture, of men's immortal dreams of disincarnation and their bloodyminded nightmares of carnal womanhood.