Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power
By Sady Doyle
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By Sady Doyle
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A Kirkus Reviews “Best Book of the Year”
This “witty, engaging analysis” of female monsters in pop culture offers “provocative and incisive” commentary on society’s fear of female rage and power (Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her).
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 that’s a good thing.
Sady Doyle, hailed as “smart, funny and fearless” by the Bost...
This “witty, engaging analysis” of female monsters in pop culture offers “provocative and incisive” commentary on society’s fear of female rage and power (Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her).
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 that’s a good thing.
Sady Doyle, hailed as “smart, funny and fearless” by the Bost...







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