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100	1		_aMagoulick, Mary J.,
245	1	4	_aThe goddess myth in contemporary literature and popular culture : _ba feminist critique / _cMary J. Magoulick.
264		1	_aJackson : _bUniversity Press of Mississippi, _c[2022]
264		4	_c©2022.
300			_a259 pages : _billustrations (black and white) ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_gIntroduction: _tAppropriative roots and (un?)feminist resonances of the goddess myth -- _tOrigins, prehistory, and attending to science -- _tMythic expressions of goddess culture and mythology - _tLiterary myths of matriarchy -- _tThe bad goddess in film and television -- _tThe good goddess in popular fiction -- _tMixed messages in modern myths -- _gConclusion: _tMaking mythic sense.
520			_a"Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many cultures. However, these goddess characters often prove to be less promising and more regressive than most people initially perceive. Goddesses in film, television, and fiction project worldviews and messages that reflect mostly patriarchal culture (included essentialized gender assumptions), in contrast to the feminist, empowering levels many fans and critics observe. Building on critiques of other skeptical scholars, this feminist, folkloristic approach deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient past reflects a contemporary worldview and rhetoric. Structures of contemporary goddess myths often fit typical extremes as either vilified, destructive, dark, and chaotic (typical in film or television); or romanticized, positive, even utopian (typical in women's speculative fiction). This goddess spectrum persistently essentializes gender, stereotyping women as emotional, intuitive, sexual, motherly beings (good or bad), precluded from complex potential and fuller natures. Within apparent good-over-evil, pop-culture narrative frames, these goddesses all suffer significantly. However, a few recent intersectional writers, like N. K. Jemisin, breakthrough these dark reflections of contemporary power dynamics to offer complex characters who evince 'hopepunk.' They resist typical simplified, reductionist absolutes to offer messages that resonate with potential for today's world. Mythic narratives featuring goddesses often do, but need not, serve merely as ideological mirrors of our culture's still problematically reductionist approach to women and all humanity"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aGoddess religion in literature.
650		0	_aGoddess religion.
650		0	_aGoddesses in art.
650		0	_aGoddesses in literature.
650		0	_aGoddesses _xFolklore.
650		0	_aGoddesses _xMiscellanea.
650		0	_aGoddesses _xMythology.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aMagoulick, Mary J. _tGoddess myth in contemporary literature and popular culture _dJackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2022 _z9781496837080 _w(DLC) 2021046128.
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