Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture (Ray and Pat Browne Book) - Softcover

Caputi, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299196240 ISBN 13: 9780299196240

Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

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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Jane Caputi is professor of women&;s studies and communication at Florida Atlantic University and author of The Age of the Sex Crime and Gossips, Gorgons & Crones: The Fates of the Earth. She also collaborated with Mary Daly on Websters&; First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0299196240
• ISBN 13: 9780299196240
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 468
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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