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Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power

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Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power

Women have always been seen as monsters. Men from Aristotle to Freud have insisted that women are freakish creatures, capable of immense destruction.

Maybe they are. And maybe thatâ€™s a good thing....

Sady Doyle, hailed as â€œsmart, funny and fearlessâ€ by the Boston Globe, takes readers on a tour of the female dark side, from the biblical Lilith to Draculaâ€™s Lucy Westenra, from the T-Rex in Jurassic Park to the teen witches of The Craft. She illuminates the women who have shaped our nightmares: Serial killer Ed Geinâ€™s â€œdomineeringâ€ mother Augusta; exorcism casualty Anneliese Michel, starving herself to death to quell her demons; author Mary Shelley, dreaming her dead child back to life.

These monsters embody patriarchal fear of women, and illustrate the violence with which men enforce traditionally feminine roles. They also speak to the primal threat of a woman who takes back her power. In a dark and dangerous world, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers asks women to look to monsters for the ferocity we all need to survive.

â€œSome people take a scalpel to the heart of media culture; Sady Doyle brings a bone saw, a melon baller, and a machete.â€â€”Andi Zeisler, author ofÂ We Were Feminists Once

Country	USA
Author	Sady Doyle
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781612197937
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Melville House
Manufacturer	Melville House
NumberOfPages	342
PublicationDate	2019-08-13
Publisher	Melville House
ReleaseDate	2019-08-13
Studio	Melville House

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