![]() ![]() ![]() The book oscillates between exploring extreme subjugation and supreme power of women via the concept of monstrosity. This is the method that Sady Doyle successfully employs in her book Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy and the Fear of Female Power. Painstaking attention to detail is needed, to avoid getting misconstrued and branded as an ‘antifeminist.’ One way out of this conundrum is through wit, satire, and irony, particularly at moments where systemic victimisation of women threatens to preclude them from wielding any kind of power, brute and/or sovereign. In other words, elucidating badness from the subject position of a woman is both a challenging (not to say fascinating) and a demanding task. ![]() In the course of my research, I have often dealt with the treacherous slope on which talking or writing about female monstrosity rests, for the propensity of patriarchal forces to morph female evil for their own advantage is an ever present threat. Reviewed by Srishti Walia, Jawaharlal Nehru University ![]()
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