![]() ![]() "Some people take a scalpel to the heart of media culture Sady Doyle brings a bone saw, a melon baller, and a machete. 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. Buy Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle (ISBN: 9781612197920) from Amazons Book Store. They also speak to the primal threat of a woman who takes back her power. These monsters embody patriarchal fear of women, and illustrate the violence with which men enforce traditionally feminine roles. She illuminates the women who have shaped our nightmares: Serial killer Ed Gein's "domineering" mother Augusta exorcism casualty Anneliese Michel, starving herself to death to quell her demons author Mary Shelley, dreaming her dead child back to life. ![]() Doyle’s follow-up to their 2016 Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear. ![]() That’s the thesis of Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power, Jude Ellison S. Sady Doyle, hailed as "smart, funny and fearless" by the Boston Globe, takes readers on a tour of the female dark side, from the biblical Lilith to Dracula 's Lucy Westenra, from the T-Rex in Jurassic Park to the teen witches of The Craft. Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers » Melville House Books List price: 16.99 Epub 12.99 Kindle 12.99 pdf 12. Women are monsters, according to the patriarchy. Men from Aristotle to Freud have insisted that women are freakish creatures, capable of immense destruction. ![]()
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