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. Dead blondes and bad mothers : monstrosity, patriarchy, and the fear of female power / Sady Doyle.
Men from Aristotle to Freud have insisted that women are freakish creatures, capable of immense destruction. Doyle's knowledge and research of depictions of women across mythology, film, television, historical retellings, and news coverage is deliberately shows.Women have always been seen as monsters. ) (Barnes & Noble.) (IndieBound.) Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear and Why. The book is organized this way to use these stages to uncover depictions of monstrosity associated with women who resist these expectations in each stage. Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy and the Fear of Female Power. Thus, women must necessarily be put under male control - and to the extent that we resist this control, we are monstrous" (xiii).ĭead Blondes and Bad Mothers is organized into three parts to reflect the main three stages of femininity imposed on women through socialization practices: being daughters, wives, and mothers. Doyle traces these two interconnected subjects - patriarchy and fear of women - across historical cases, mythology, ideology and popular culture to present the argument that "Men define humanity, and women, insofar as they are not men, are not human. Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power links male fear to the demonization of women throughout history. Sady Doyle's brilliant book weaves together feminist theory, pop culture, and the mythology of female monsters to uncover the patriarchal thread that runs through it all. Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power.
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