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. 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. 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. Together with an introduction by Sady Doyle, these pieces reveal yet another Marilyn: not the tragic heroine shes become in the popular imagination, but a righteously and justifiably angry figure breaking free of the limitations the world. Men from Aristotle to Freud have insisted that women are freakish creatures, capable of immense destruction. Dead blondes and bad mothers : monstrosity, patriarchy, and the fear of female power by Sady Doyle.
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