Female Gothic and Male Gothic briefly defined

An interpretative heuristic, among others, for analyzing the zombie narrative in text and film:

With feminist scholarship, critics have delineated two modes of Gothic which dramatize the social and political contradictions of modern experience via fantastic and extreme situations:

Female Gothic: wrought upon by villains and monsters often resembling tyrannical fathers and oppressive mothers, and given to ghostly apprehensions and terrors, a young female protagonist suffers imprisonment and attempts escape, on the road to liberty and a happier world.

Male Gothic: wrought upon by monsters that often resemble devouring mothers and judgmental fathers, and given to violent, bloody, and disorienting horrors, a male protagonist indulges in forbidden knowledges, suffers exile and solitude, and attempts escape, reparation or return.

Consider characters and storylines in light of these sub-genres, and perhaps in light of how contemporary writers may run changes on them.