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That's a good feminist reading of the movie. I've heard the Exorcist is also supposed to be a metaphor for a girl's adolescence. How it's scary to those around her when a female changes and matures physically, tying it in to dark forces and posession.
From a girl's point of view it can be scary, but it's probably even more frightening to guys, most of whom are really uncomfortable about menstruation. Definitely a good horror topic. Cronenberg also does that great fear of the body type horror.
I think Justine was the protagonist's name. The dresses were bloody from the beginning so I don't think they tied in to Justine specifically though that one nun seemed to have a special interest in her and cried bloody tears when her and Alucarda were having (what I refer to as) their lesbian Satanic wedding scene.
My fave scene was when justine pops naked and covered in blood out of the coffin and attacks the nun. So simple, but so scary and a great powerful image! To me it was a stronger scene than just some slasher in a mask.
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