While writing the book proposal for Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers, media personality Donald Trump won the 2016 United States presidential election-this and other events led Doyle to change their perspective from Trainwreck, where they had thought women's rights were advancing, to be more pessimistic and contain more hopelessness. Doyle is non-binary but identified as a woman and used the name 'Sady Doyle' at the time of writing. Their second book, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers, was published by Melville House on August 13, 2019. and Why (2016), analyzed the social consequences facing women who violated gender roles in various cultures, and women's mental health. Jude Ellison Doyle's first book, Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear.

Critics praised the writing quality, humor and style of argumentation, finding its conclusions mostly agreeable. It was Doyle's second book, after Trainwreck (2016), and has a more pessimistic outlook on the future of women's rights.

Case studies include The Exorcist 's portrayal of female puberty, the murderer Ed Gein who inspired Psycho and the Frankenstein author Mary Shelley's real-life experiences relating to childbirth. It explores the presentation of female bodies in literature, film and other media, particularly horror fiction and true crime, and proposes that these are reflective of patriarchal views: that a woman's body is a defect from a male body that women should be controlled, and that their puberty or sexual autonomy are to be feared and that men's criminality can be attributed to poor maternal influence. In a dark and dangerous world, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers asks women to look to monsters for the ferocity we all need to survive.Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy and the Fear of Female Power is a 2019 book by Jude Ellison Doyle. They also speak to the primal threat of a woman who takes back her power. These monsters embody patriarchal fear of women, and illustrate the violence with which men enforce traditionally feminine roles. She illuminates the women who have shaped our nightmares: Serial killer Ed Gein’s “domineering” mother Augusta exorcism casualty Anneliese Michel, starving herself to death to quell her demons author Mary Shelley, dreaming her dead child back to life. And maybe that’s a good thing… Sady Doyle, hailed as “smart, funny, and fearless” by the Boston Globe, takes listeners on a tour of the female dark side, from the biblical Lilith to Dracula’s Lucy Westenra, from the T-Rex in Jurassic Park to the teen witches of The Craft.

Men from Aristotle to Freud have insisted that women are freakish creatures, capable of immense destruction.

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