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Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture BISAC-BUS071000 no one is safe fromThe essays in Goddesses and Monsters recognize popular culture as a primary repository of ancient mythic energies, images, narratives, personalities, icons, and archetypes. Together, they take on the patriarchal myth, where serial killers are heroes, where goddesses in the form of great white sharks, femmes fatales, and aliens are ritually slaughtered, and where pornography is the core story underlying militarism, environmental devastation, and