Date Read: March 5
Author: Sady Doyle
Genre: Nonfiction
Rating: 5/5
Sady Doyle examines the patriarchal fear of women by exploring characters from Dracula‘s Lucy Westenra to the T-Rex in Jurassic Park. She looks at women in three stages: daughters, wives, and mothers, and takes apart the assumptions that exist around a women in each role. I truly enjoyed reading this book, from the start to the end.
Female monstrosity inspires terror because it really can end the world – or our current version of it, anyway. But our world is not the only one, and in fact, the more time I spend with monsters, the more I think its destruction is overdue.
– Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
Zoey's Year in Books 2020 