Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
x, 480 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-459) and index. |
Contents |
The lords of creation battle the vampires of time -- Vital essence and blighting mildew : dimorphic gender evolution and the natural philosophy of lust -- For the blood is the life : hysteria, Freud's jewel box, transcendent manhood, and the mark of the beast -- A Congo song in the heart of darkness : the vampire-woman's African genesis -- The physiology of vampirism : the root of all evil and the womb of production; seminal economics and spermatophagy -- And fools they were : the biology of racism and the iron law of the jungle; love rituals of the socialist vampire -- Real vampires : the sexual woman and her allies : Bolsheviks, Semites, and Eurasians; the yellow peril of the Aryan imagination -- Domesticating the vampire : Hollywood and seminal economy -- Rigging the great race against the beautiful and damned : cultural genetics of unclean women and emasculate men -- Dualism enthroned : oak trees and destroyers; Hitler and the hammer of death; genocide as gynecide in the mythology of popular culture. |
Subject |
Women in popular culture -- History.
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Femmes fatales -- History.
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Sexism -- History.
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Racism -- History.
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Vampires -- History.
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ISBN |
0394569451 |
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