Goddesses and Monsters Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture

Name: Goddesses and Monsters Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture
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ISBN: 9780299196240

ISBN-10: 0299196240

ISBN-13: 9780299196240

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jane Caputi

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The essays in Goddesses and Monsters recognize popular culture as a primary repository of ancient mythic energies, images, narratives, personalities, icons, and archetypes.nbsp; 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.nbsp; 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,…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 7/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Introduction : tracing the goddess/facing the monster



Patriarchal myth



Jaws as patriarchal myth



Sleeping with the enemy as Pretty woman part II?



Femme noire (with Lauri Sagle)



The pornography of everyday life



Gods and monsters



The new founding fathers : the lore and lure of the serial killer in contemporary culture



American psychos



Small ceremonies : ritual in Natural born killers, Forrest Gump, and Follow me home



The gods we worship : sexual murder as religious sacrifice



Myth and technology



Seeing elephants : the myths of phallotechnology



Sex, radiation, and the sacred



Unthinkable fathering : connecting incest and nuclearism



On the lap of necessity : myth and technology through the energetics philosophy of Teresa Brennan



Female potency



Goddesses and monsters



The second coming of Diana



Facing change : African mythic origins in Octavia Butler's parable novels



The naked goddess : pornography, female potency, and the sacred



The cyborg or the goddess?