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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. Sady Doyle, hailed as "smart, funny, and fearless" by the Boston Globe, takes listeners 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. The violence we’ve survived can be our guide to what needs to change. Our blood holds magic our stories do, too. Men from Aristotle to Freud have insisted that women are freakish creatures, capable of immense destruction. Dead blondes and bad mothers, harlots and abominations, witches at the gate of light and darkness we are the end of the world that was, and the first sign of the world to come, in the age after patriarchy, when monsters rule the earth.

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.Women have always been seen as monsters. Sady Doyle (Author) Chloe Cannon (Read by). These monsters embody patriarchal fear of women, and illustrate the violence with which men enforce traditionally feminine roles. Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power. Buy Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle (ISBN: 9781612197920) from Amazons Book Store.

Sady Doyle, hailed as "smart, funny, and fearless" by the Boston Globe, takes listeners 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. These monsters embody patriarchal fear of women, and illustrate the violence with which men enforce traditionally feminine roles. Men from Aristotle to Freud have insisted that women are freakish creatures, capable of immense destruction.