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04418aam a2200577 i 4500 001 612FDF403CC311EE8B657E6F2BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230817010032 008 211122t20222022msua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021046127 020 $a 1496837053 020 $a 9781496837059 020 $a 1496837061 020 $a 9781496837066 040 $a MsSM/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCO $d YUS $d XII $d ZLM $d IAK $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a BL325.F4 $b M34 2022 082 00 $a 809/.9338202114 $2 23/eng/20211128 084 $a LIT003000 $a LIT003000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Magoulick, Mary J., $e author. 245 14 $a The goddess myth in contemporary literature and popular culture : $b a feminist critique / $c Mary J. Magoulick. 264 1 $a Jackson : $b University Press of Mississippi, $c [2022] 300 $a 259 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-250) and index. 505 00 $g Conclusion: $t Making mythic sense. $g Part I: $t The goddess myth as myth. $t Origins, prehistory, and attending to science ; $t Mythic expressions of goddess culture and mythology -- $g Part II: $t New goddess myths in literature and popular culture. $t Literary myths of matriarchy ; $t The bad goddess in film and television ; $t The good goddess in popular fiction ; $t Mixed messages in modern myths -- $g Conclusion: $t Making 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"; $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Goddesses $x Mythology. 650 0 $a Goddesses in literature. 650 0 $a Goddess religion. 650 0 $a Goddess religion in literature. 650 0 $a Goddesses in art. 650 0 $a Goddesses $x Miscellanea. 650 0 $a Goddesses $x Folklore. 650 6 $a DeÌesses $x Mythologie. 650 6 $a DeÌesses dans la litteÌrature. 650 6 $a DeÌesses $x Culte. 650 6 $a DeÌesses dans l'art. 650 6 $a DeÌesses $x MiscellaneÌes. 650 6 $a DeÌesses $x Folklore. 650 7 $a Goddess religion. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00944175 650 7 $a Goddess religion in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00944179 650 7 $a Goddesses. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00944180 650 7 $a Goddesses in art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00944185 650 7 $a Goddesses in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00944186 655 7 $a Folklore. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423784 655 7 $a Trivia and miscellanea. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921748 776 08 $i Online version: $a Magoulick, Mary J. $t Goddess myth in contemporary literature and popular culture $d Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2022 $z 9781496837080 $w (DLC) 2021046128 941 $a 1 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20230817010139.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=612FDF403CC311EE8B657E6F2BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search