Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture

Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture
ISBN-10
0299196240
ISBN-13
9780299196240
Category
Social Science
Pages
484
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
Popular Press
Author
Jane Caputi

Description

The essays focus upon popular culture as it is informed by ancient and current mythic images, narratives, personalities, icons and archetypes. Topics include: the cult status of the serial sex killer; sexual murder as a contemporary form of religious sacrifice; pornography as an everyday narrative underlying not only sexism, but also racism, homophobia, and militarism; the relation of incest to nuclearism; pornography and the sacred; cyborg myth; and subtextual presence of ancient goddess figures in contemporary narratives, including that of Princess Diana.

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