Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power

by Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612197922
• ISBN13: 9781612197920
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Melville House Publishing
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.1"