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

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General Note:	"A Ray and Pat Browne book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-453) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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?