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

from seongeona

Nothing really new here for me, but those new to the genre will find it valuable. The 4th wave trope "transwomen are actual women" rather defeats the purpose of the analysis and isn't addressed here except in passing quips about how awful it is that a few men in dresses are portrayed negatively. ...

from rivkat

Feminist analysis of standard tropes—while not much was new, Doyle is an engaging writer and I didn't know just how much people liked to blame Ed Gein's mother for his serial killing. Also, when a woman wrote a book saying that maternal love wasn't natural, but “uncertain, fragile and imperfect,”...

from GennaC

“We are that fire. We are the Apocalypse, the risen Furies, the scarlet woman riding her red dragon over the horizon, because we know that the woman and the dragon were always one and the same. Dead blondes and bad mothers, harlots and abominations, witches at the gate of light and darkness; we a...

from GennaC

“We are that fire. We are the Apocalypse, the risen Furies, the scarlet woman riding her red dragon over the horizon, because we know that the woman and the dragon were always one and the same. Dead blondes and bad mothers, harlots and abominations, witches at the gate of light and darkness; we a...