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Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
Buch von Jess Zimmerman
Sprache: Englisch

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A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more "monstrous" version of feminism

The folklore that has shaped our dominant culture teems with frightening female creatures. In our language, in our stories (many written by men), we underline the idea that women who step out of bounds--who are angry or greedy or ambitious, who are overtly sexual or not sexy enough--aren't just outside the norm. They're unnatural. Monstrous. But maybe, the traits we've been told make us dangerous and undesirable are actually our greatest strengths.

Through fresh analysis of eleven female monsters, including Medusa, the Harpies, the Furies, and the Sphinx, Jess Zimmerman takes us on an illuminating feminist journey through mythology. She guides women (and others) to reexamine their relationships with traits like hunger, anger, ugliness, and ambition, teaching readers to embrace a new image of the female hero: one that looks a lot like a monster, with the agency and power to match.

Often, women try to avoid the feeling of monstrousness, of being grotesquely alien, by tamping down those qualities that we're told fall outside the bounds of natural femininity. But monsters also get to do what other female characters--damsels, love interests, and even most heroines--do not. Monsters get to be complete, unrestrained, and larger than life. Today, women are becoming increasingly aware of the ways rules and socially constructed expectations have diminished us. After seeing where compliance gets us--harassed, shut out, and ruled by predators--women have never been more ready to become repellent, fearsome, and ravenous.
A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more "monstrous" version of feminism

The folklore that has shaped our dominant culture teems with frightening female creatures. In our language, in our stories (many written by men), we underline the idea that women who step out of bounds--who are angry or greedy or ambitious, who are overtly sexual or not sexy enough--aren't just outside the norm. They're unnatural. Monstrous. But maybe, the traits we've been told make us dangerous and undesirable are actually our greatest strengths.

Through fresh analysis of eleven female monsters, including Medusa, the Harpies, the Furies, and the Sphinx, Jess Zimmerman takes us on an illuminating feminist journey through mythology. She guides women (and others) to reexamine their relationships with traits like hunger, anger, ugliness, and ambition, teaching readers to embrace a new image of the female hero: one that looks a lot like a monster, with the agency and power to match.

Often, women try to avoid the feeling of monstrousness, of being grotesquely alien, by tamping down those qualities that we're told fall outside the bounds of natural femininity. But monsters also get to do what other female characters--damsels, love interests, and even most heroines--do not. Monsters get to be complete, unrestrained, and larger than life. Today, women are becoming increasingly aware of the ways rules and socially constructed expectations have diminished us. After seeing where compliance gets us--harassed, shut out, and ruled by predators--women have never been more ready to become repellent, fearsome, and ravenous.
Über den Autor
Jess Zimmerman
Inhaltsverzeichnis
A Note to the Reader

Introduction: Sister Monsters

How to Turn a Man to Stone

Voracious

Dogs Below the Waist

Singing for Bread

The Snatchers

That’s What You Think

Social Justice Warriors

Deep Houses

Shark, Snake, Swarm

Come Back Twice as Hard

Epilogue: Mother of Monsters


Acknowledgments
Resources
Credits
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780807054932
ISBN-10: 0807054933
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Zimmerman, Jess
Hersteller: Beacon Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 230 x 156 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Jess Zimmerman
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.03.2021
Gewicht: 0,464 kg
Artikel-ID: 118713823
Über den Autor
Jess Zimmerman
Inhaltsverzeichnis
A Note to the Reader

Introduction: Sister Monsters

How to Turn a Man to Stone

Voracious

Dogs Below the Waist

Singing for Bread

The Snatchers

That’s What You Think

Social Justice Warriors

Deep Houses

Shark, Snake, Swarm

Come Back Twice as Hard

Epilogue: Mother of Monsters


Acknowledgments
Resources
Credits
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780807054932
ISBN-10: 0807054933
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Zimmerman, Jess
Hersteller: Beacon Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 230 x 156 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Jess Zimmerman
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.03.2021
Gewicht: 0,464 kg
Artikel-ID: 118713823
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