dead blondes and bad mothers by sady doyle

'Some people take a scalpel to the heart of media culture Sady Doyle brings a bone saw, a melon baller, and a machete.'-Andi Zeisler, author of We Were Feminists Once. 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. Male 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. Andi Zeisler, author of We Were Feminists Once. Some people take a scalpel to the heart of media culture Sady Doyle brings a bone saw, a melon baller, and a machete. Sady Doyle, hailed as 'smart, funny and fearless' by the Boston Globe, takes readers on a tour of the fe 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. Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power Sady Doyle on. Men from Aristotle to Freud have insisted that women are freakish creatures, capable of immense destruction. 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.

Dead blondes and bad mothers by sady doyle