![]() After reading this book, it’s clear men should be afraid of what they have wrought-very afraid. Gifted with humor and insight, Doyle writes as if she’s ready to lead a revolution for women who are tired of being underestimated and mistreated by the men who fear them. And the roles women are relegated to have been the result. This isn’t an easy question to answer, but just as she did with her 2016 debut Trainwreck, Doyle examines how, in history and in pop culture, we’re always building women up, only to tear them down. In 1895, an Irish man named Michael Cleary became convinced that his wife, Bridget, had been replaced by a fairy. ![]() Men’s fear, she contends, is an acknowledgment of women’s power, so why can’t women seem to capitalize on that? “Women have always been seen as monsters,” she writes, before diving into the history of female monstrosity and its ties to male paranoia. ![]() With Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers, Sady Doyle harnesses the anger of women who’ve been unfairly reduced to just daughters, wives, and mothers, to create a new feminist manifesto for a new wave of feminists. DEAD BLONDES AND BAD MOTHERS: MONSTROSITY, PATRIARCHY, AND THE FEAR OF FEMALE POWER ![]()
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