Victorious Counterrevolution: The Nationalist Effort in the Spanish Civil War

The essays in Goddesses and Monsters recognize popular culture as a primary repository of ancient mythic energies, images, narratives, personalities, icons, and archetypes. Together, they take on the patriarchal myth, where serial killers are heroes, where goddesses--in the form of great white sharks, femmes fatales, and aliens--are ritually slaughtered, and where pornography is the core story underlying militarism, environmental devastation, and racism. They also point to an alternative imagination of female power that still can be found behind the cult devotion given to Princess Diana and animating all the goddesses disguised as popular monsters, queen bitches, mammies, vamps, cyborgs, and sex bombs.

Author: Michael Seidman
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 03/28/2011
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780299249649

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2011

About the Author

Michael Seidman is professor of history at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. He is author of Republic of Egos: A Social History of the Spanish Civil War, The Imaginary Revolution: Parisian Students and Workers in 1968, and Workers against Work: Labor in Paris and Barcelona during the Popular Fronts (1936-38).