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Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture
University of Wisconsin Press, 2004 Cloth: 978-0-299-19620-2 | Paper: 978-0-299-19624-0 Library of Congress Classification HQ1190.C368 2004 Dewey Decimal Classification 306
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The essays in Goddesses and Monsters recognize popular culture as a primary repository of ancient mythic energies, images, narratives, personalities, icons, and archetypes. Together, they take on the patriarchal myth, where serial killers are heroes, where goddesses—in the form of great white sharks, femmes fatales, and aliens—are ritually slaughtered, and where pornography is the core story underlying militarism, environmental devastation, and racism. They also point to an alternative imagination of female power that still can be found behind the cult devotion given to Princess Diana and animating all the goddesses disguised as popular monsters, queen bitches, mammies, vamps, cyborgs, and sex bombs. See other books on: Feminist criticism | Goddesses | Monsters | Patriarchy | Women in popular culture See other titles from University of Wisconsin Press |
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Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
University of Wisconsin Press, 2004
Cloth: 978-0-299-19620-2
Paper: 978-0-299-19624-0
Cloth: 978-0-299-19620-2
Paper: 978-0-299-19624-0
The essays in Goddesses and Monsters recognize popular culture as a primary repository of ancient mythic energies, images, narratives, personalities, icons, and archetypes. Together, they take on the patriarchal myth, where serial killers are heroes, where goddesses—in the form of great white sharks, femmes fatales, and aliens—are ritually slaughtered, and where pornography is the core story underlying militarism, environmental devastation, and racism. They also point to an alternative imagination of female power that still can be found behind the cult devotion given to Princess Diana and animating all the goddesses disguised as popular monsters, queen bitches, mammies, vamps, cyborgs, and sex bombs.
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