Girls are left reckoning with the fact that their social status, their human value, even their basic survival, are all suddenly contingent on men. It is not fun to slip - suddenly and for the rest of your life - out of humanity and into womanhood. Their underlying anxieties are hit with a toxic sludge of predatory attention, sexual objectification, and impossible standards, growing to fifty times their natural size. Adolescent girls have spent their lives absorbing our cultural disgust for womanhood, only to find themselves thrust into the middle of it, suddenly the butt of every joke. Skin musk and soap, smoldering with ash and exorcism incense.

In a culture where we’re trained to protect children and loathe women, the border zone between the two states is the subject of intense superstition and terror.” “This is the ideological force driving all those stories about toxic period blood and PMS-induced hauntings.

This is a violent book, but an unsparing confrontation with violence can bring us to what lies beneath and beyond it.” - Sady DoyleĮach perfume oil presented in a 5ml amber apothecary bottle. “This is a dark book, but some things are clearer in the darkness.

You can read the descriptions of each below! We were very keen to take on the challenge of creating detailed scent portraits for some of these archetypes! And now, for the anniversary of the book's release, we finally get to unleash our twisted works upon the world. So reads the first line of Sady Doyle's 2019 non-fiction book Dead Blondes & Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power, which presents a series of monstrous archetypes that perpetually recur in stories about women – including the ones we construct around current events, or events in our own lives. Here's what the email had to say about this collection: This kind of feminist discussion is dear to my heart, and I thought others here might be interested as well. Got an email today about a new BPAL release that has to do with female archetypes, power, and the patriarchy.

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