This weeks seminar discussions focused on Clemence Housman’s, an author and illustrator, The Were-Wolf and her wood-cut engraved illustrations. Houseman was a massive supporter of the woman's rights/sufferage movement which resulted in her defying gender norms within her lifestyle choices and literary work. Within the work we focused on, she defies gender norms by depicting a female werewolf within her work during a time where werewolves were assumed to be a symbol representing man. This is why I found the discussions today quite interesting as I enjoy seeing creators include things in their work that are deemed unconventional and controversial, but also pushes a social message. Werewolves were always seen as hypermasculine, and dominating, which are not traits women at this time were meant to embody, and the discussions today allowed me to understand how her feminist politics really reflected within her work and the illustrations. The illustration that intigued me the most was The Race as it caught my eye through the way White Fell is depicted in an androgynous fashion despite her being a femme fatale, as mentioned in the discussions. I also found it interesting that they chose to illustrate her half transformed as well. Although White Fell is slightly behind Christian, she was still the first thing I saw when looking at this illustration due to the choice of leaving her white, while the rest of the image is shaded quite dark.