The Female Monster is alive and well in the pop-cultural imagination. What does she tell us about ourselves and how we live today?
Sady Doyle is the author of Trainwreck- The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . and Why. Her work has appeared in In These Times, The Guardian, Elle.com, The Atlantic, Slate, Buzzfeed, Rookie, among other publications. She is the founder of the blog Tiger Beatdown, and won the first-ever Women's Media Center Social Media Award. She's been featured in Rookie- Yearbook One and Yearbook Two, and contributed to the Book of Jezebel.
"Sady Doyle is an absolutely essential voice in this moment of
moral panic. As we continue the battle for gender equality, her
writing grounds the fight in a refreshing dose of sanity. I
recommend it to anyone interested in remaining sane."-- Lauren
Duca, author of How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the
Future of American Politics "Sady Doyle has created a chimera of a
book: simultaneously a crackling great read full of riveting
stories, and a damning indictment of how our culture represses what
it can't control. It's hard to read, at times, but also necessary
and validating, swashbuckling without being careless, powerful and
funny and compelling throughout."-- Emily Gould, And the Heart Says
Whatever
"Sady Doyle's provocative and incisive cultural commentary is
consistently several steps ahead of mainstream political analysis.
What, today, is more important that an examination of our society's
fear of women and power, a topic Doyle has studied down years. Her
deep understanding and witty, engaging analysis will make you see
the world in a whole new, and important, way."--Soraya Chemaly,
author of Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
"Thoughtful and compelling, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers is
alternately refreshing and comforting, fascinating and infuriating.
Doyle shines a light into dark corners where feminine rage and
violence lurk..."-- Cherie Priest, award-winning author of The
Family Plot
"From history to pop-culture, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers lays
bare the violence and structured misogyny we don't want to see. She
has ripped the blinders off."--Nancy Schwartzman, Director Roll Red
Roll, Founder, Circle of 6
"Sady Doyle has redrawn the lines in the cultural sand with Dead
Blondes and Bad Mothers. Combining history, folklore, true crime,
personal anecdotes and horror films Doyle has written a book that
redefines the female experience, emboldening, empowering and
expanding it beyond its preconceived confines. Beautifully written,
devastatingly funny, and exhaustively researched Dead Blondes and
Bad Mothers is a deeply necessary and urgent book."-- Alexandra
West, author of The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle: Final Girls and a New
Hollywood Formula
"An eye-opening treatment of an issue that could not be more
timely: the pathologization and demonization of women's power."--
Kate Manne, author of Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
"Sady Doyle opens my eyes, and challenges my beliefs, with a
combination of historical perspective, fascinating portraits,
psychological insight, and just damn good writing." -- Andrew
Jenks, host of What Really Happened?
"Doyle delivers a defense and embrace of the feminine grotesque."
-- Erika M. Anderson (EMA), musician and multimedia artist
"Why are powerful women so scary to us, and what myths keep them
that way? A macabre, witty, and often bone-chilling look at the way
patriarchy has contained and neutralized women's power throughout
the ages by construing it as monstrous, Doyle pulls off her
dazzling synthesis in page-turning prose that makes it clear what
the real monster is--patriarchy--and leaves us with the hope that
by embracing the monstrous within ourselves, we might just slay
it." -- Amy Gentry, author of Good as Gone and Last Woman
Standing
"Sady Doyle successfully reframes patriarchy itself. It is not, as
we have been told, the natural order of things: where men are fated
to lead, absent any consideration to women. Instead, it is a system
that was unnaturally constructed in fear of women. And now, as we
reach what feels to be the end, the imagined monsters we have
always made of women must become the very real monsters that are
the only beings capable of breaking the system entirely."-- Zack
Akers, creator of Limetown podcast and TV series
"This book blew me away. Step by inexorable, logical, sure-footed
step, Sady Doyle lays bare how patriarchy traps us in the stories
it tells about us, and how these stories are a form of violence in
themselves. Fueled by rage and spiked, like a nail bomb, with
humor, this book feels like the lights coming on suddenly, just in
time to see the roaches scatter."-- Carina Chocano, bestselling
author of You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Princesses,
Trainwrecks and Other Man-Made Women
"Wrested from the sanitized grasp of corporate jargon and cliches,
Doyle acquaints readers uneasily with the brutal, corporeal roots
of our language and rituals around power: corrupt, degrade, gag,
discipline, condemn, expel..."-- Alana Massey, author of All The
Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen To Be Famous
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