Description Women have always been seen as monsters.
She\'s been featured in Rookie: Yearbook One and Yearbook Two, and contributed to the Book of Jezebel..
She is the founder of the blog Tiger Beatdown, and won the first-ever Women\'s Media Center Social Media Award. com, The Atlantic, Slate, Buzzfeed, Rookie, among other publications.
Her work has appeared in In These Times, The Guardian, Elle. and Why. . . "Some people take a scalpel to the heart of media culture
Sady Doyle brings a bone saw, a melon baller, and a machete."--Andi Zeisler, author of We Were Feminists Once About the Author Sady Doyle is the author of Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear .
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 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.
And maybe that\'s a good thing....
Maybe they are.
Men from Aristotle to Freud have insisted that women are freakish creatures, capable of immense destruction.
Description Women have always been seen as monsters
