Women's Studies / Popular Culture / Film & Theater / Mythology
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Goddesses
and Monsters Popular Press, an imprint
of the University of Wisconsin Press A new way of seeing ancient and current
male-female mythologies of sex and power 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. Jane Caputi is professor of Women's Studies and Communication at Florida Atlantic University and author of The Age of the Sex Crime and Gossips, Gorgons & Crones: The Fates of the Earth. She also collaborated with Mary Daly on Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language. Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.) |
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