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Emma Straus presents Morticia Addams: A different kind of woman In-Person
Join us for this special event in partnership with AddamsFest!
Morticia Addams represents a different kind of woman in television history and in real life. In her various iterations throughout the ‘60s and '90s, Morticia stood as a feminist icon elucidated by her self-defined presence, parenting style, and fierce devotion to her self and family. Join Emma Straus for a discussion about the iconic matriarch of the Addams Family.
Emma Straus is a writer, self-taught photographer, body painter, and creative from New Jersey. Her thesis, Defamiliarizing Gender: Gothic Laughter and Radical Joy in The Addams Family, focused on the revolutionary way the Addams Family subverted traditional gender norms and redefined strangeness in the domestic sphere through finding joy in the frightful.