![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Available in used condition with free US shipping on. They also speak to the primal threat of a woman who takes back her power. Buy Dead Blondes And Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power By Sady Doyle. These monsters embody patriarchal fear of women, and illustrate the violence with which men enforce traditionally feminine roles. Her latest book, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers, is a history of patriarchy that covers everything from literature and cinema to mythology, religion, history and current events. 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. Sady Doyle, hailed as "smart, funny, and fearless" by the Boston Globe, takes listeners 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. Men from Aristotle to Freud have insisted that women are freakish creatures, capable of immense destruction. ![]()
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