Not the horror genre - though plenty of those examples are included - but about the horror of living as a woman in a violent patriarchal society that fears you, despises you even wants you dead. But this book focuses more intently on … horror. Her new book, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power, also looks at how the morass of misogyny poisons everything - including our psyches, our popular culture and our everyday lives. In her acclaimed 2016 debut, Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear … and Why, feminist author and cultural critic Sady Doyle dissected the ubiquitous American pastime of simultaneously idolizing and vilifying female celebrity. Laura Barcella | Longreads | August 2019 | 14 minutes (3,597 words) Join Longreads and help us to support more writers.
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