I was a strange kid I doubled down on that strangeness as junior high started to squeeze my quirks out of me like a tube of toothpaste. In the sixth grade, I became obsessed with werewolves.
I went through a phase where I watched all of the classic silent monster movies that featured acting luminaries Bela Lugosi and the senior and junior Lon Chaneys. I can’t remember when it started, but at some point during my childhood, I began to think that vampires, phantoms (specifically, the Phantom of the Opera-which was my 4 th grade Halloween costume), and werewolves were the height of coolness and sophistication. “Some people take a scalpel to the heart of media culture Sady Doyle brings a bone saw, a melon baller, and a machete.I have been fascinated by monsters from an early age. 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 Serial killer Ed Gein’s “domineering” mother Augusta exorcism casualty Anneliese Michel, who starved herself to death to quell her demons author Mary Shelley, who dreamed her dead child back to life.
Sady Doyle, hailed as “smart, funny and fearless” by the Boston Globe, takes readers on a tour of the female 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. Men from Aristotle to Freud have insisted that women are freakish creatures, capable of immense destruction. 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 )
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