| Description |
x, 468 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
"A Ray and Pat Browne book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-453) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : tracing the goddess/facing the monster -- Jaws as patriarchal myth -- Sleeping with the enemy as Pretty woman part II? -- Femme noire (with Lauri Sagle) -- The pornography of everyday life -- The new founding fathers : the lore and lure of the serial killer in contemporary culture -- American psychos -- Small ceremonies : ritual in Natural born killers, Forrest Gump, and Follow me home -- The gods we worship : sexual murder as religious sacrifice -- Seeing elephants : the myths of phallotechnology -- Sex, radiation, and the sacred -- Unthinkable fathering : connecting incest and nuclearism -- On the lap of necessity : myth and technology through the energetics philosophy of Teresa Brennan -- Goddesses and monsters -- The second coming of Diana -- Facing change : African mythic origins in Octavia Butler's Parable novels -- The naked goddess : pornography, female potency, and the sacred -- The cyborg or the goddess? |
| Subject |
Feminist criticism.
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Popular culture.
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Women in popular culture.
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Sex role.
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Patriarchy.
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| ISBN |
0299196240 (pbk.) |
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9780299196240 (pbk.) |
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0299196208 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780299196202 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 25691978X |
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IG# 0299196208 |
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IG# 0299196240 |
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YDXCP 2067136 |
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NZ1 7992126 |
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AU@ 000024983604 |
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