Table of contents : Acknowledgments 1 “Bedlam Dames and Fowle Hags”: Uterine Pathologies and Menopausal Ambiguities 2 Gertrude and the Petrifying Gorgon Womb 3 Tamora and the Invasive Vegetable Womb 4 Volumnia and the Sacrificial Animal Womb 5 Lady Macbeth and the Envious Womb 6 Menopausal Cleopatra and the Hybrid Cyborg Womb 7 Conclusion Index