“Operateur Cephalique” — undated engraving by Campion, depicting Lustucru's workshop in which the heads of women are reforged, representing a brutal cure for the "madness" of women.
Featured on PDR in the essay Lustucru: From Severed Heads to Ready-Made Meals
Jé Wilson charts the migration of the Lustucru figure through the French cultural imagination — from misogynistic blacksmith bent on curbing female empowerment, to child-stealing bogeyman, to jolly purveyor of packaged pasta.
Also appearing in the essay…
Operateur Cephalique
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1663
