Goddesses and monsters : women, myth, power, and popular culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Caputi, Jane
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Madison : University of Wisconsin Press/Popular Press, [2004]
Subjects:	Feminist criticism. Popular culture. Women in popular culture. Sex role. Patriarchy. Critique féministe. Culture populaire. Femmes dans la culture populaire. Rôle selon le sexe. Patriarcat (Sociologie)
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of 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?