Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture (Ray and Pat Browne Book) [Paperback]

Jane Caputi (Author)

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Publication Date: April 15, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0299196240 | ISBN-13: 978-0299196240 | Edition: 1

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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"Goddesses and Monsters is written by one of the leading scholars (and thinkers) about man-woman relationships in academia today. Neither shrill nor strident, Jane Caputi thoroughly examines the evidence and reads it—though to be sure from a feminist point of view."—Ray Browne

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• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Popular Press 3; 1 edition (April 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0299196240
• ISBN-13: 978-0299196240
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #169,268 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #64 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Women's Studies > Women Writers

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Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture is fantastic! Every feminist could benefit from this book, every womon, anyone with an open, thinking mind, who's not afraid of the truth. This author knows her stuff. This book cuts through the lies of patriarchy, through its mindbindings, and propaganda. Besides the importance of the information within, this book is just a really good read, it's so interesting. The setup is great, you can pick any part and just go from there and enjoy, you don't absolutely have to go from the beginning to get good info from it. This book cuts away the brambles put there to block our way/path/vision to womonland, to the reality of what patriarchy has been up to... in the media; TV, movies, advertisements, news, etc... This is a patriarchy myth/lie buster. This womon has ovaries!

I wish I could do justice to this work Jane Caputi has done, it deserves better than I am able to write/convey. I am very grateful to her for her work/words of knowledge. Without these learned feminist wimmin like Jane Caputi, Mary Daly, Barbara G. Walker, Merlin Stone, Monica Sjoo, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Gerda Lerner, Shekhina Mountainwater and so many more, we would all have little chance of seeing through the lies and mindbindings of patriarchy back to our true and rightful womon heritage.

Goddesses and Monsters... is another tool we can use to pirate back our womon treasure that has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Thank you Jane!