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100 1 $aDijkstra, Bram.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85331740
245 10 $aEvil sisters :$bthe threat of female sexuality and the cult of manhood /$cBram Dijkstra.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c1996.
300 $ax, 480 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 445-459) and index.
505 00 $gI.$tThe Lords of Creation Battle the Vampires of Time --$gII.$tVital Essence and Blighting Mildew: Dimorphic Gender Evolution and the Natural Philosophy of Lust --$gIII.$tFor the Blood is the Life: Hysteria, Freud's Jewel Box, Transcendent Manhood, and the Mark of the Beast --$gIV.$tA Congo Song in the Heart of Darkness: The Vampire-Woman's African Genesis --$gV.$tThe Physiology of Vampirism: The Root of All Evil and the Womb of Production; Seminal Economics and Spermatophagy --$gVI.$tAnd Fools They Were: The Biology of Racism and the Iron Law of the Jungle; Love Rituals of the Socialist Vampire --$gVII.$tReal Vampires: The Sexual Woman and Her Allies: Bolsheviks, Semites, and Eurasians; The Yellow Peril of the Aryan Imagination --$gVIII.$tDomesticating the Vampire: Hollywood and Seminal Economy --$gIX.$tRigging the Great Race Against the Beautiful and Damned: The Cultural Genetics of Unclean Women and Emasculate Men --
505 80 $gX.$tDualism Enthroned: Oak Trees and Destroyers; Hitler and the Hammer of Death; Genocide as Gynecide in the Mythology of Popular Culture.
520 $aBram Dijkstra's new book, ten years in work, is a stunning inquiry into the idea of woman as seductress: how, in many areas of twentieth-century high and popular culture, the female came to be portrayed as a regressive, primitive force whose sexuality could destroy the social order, undermining the supremacy of the white male - and shows the devastating historical effects of this portrayal.
520 8 $aDijkstra begins his analysis with the 1915 silent film A Fool There Was, in which Theda Bara first embodied our century's vision of the Vamp - kohl-eyed, predatory, seducing respectable men and destroying them with her voracious appetite. The part played by turn-of-the-century biologists, gynecologists, psychologists, geneticists, and sociologists in helping to develop distorted ideas of gender, sex, and race is examined.
520 8 $aAnd Dijkstra shows how these distortions have been reflected in painting; in popular and literary fiction, from Bram Stoker's Dracula to the novels of Conrad, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner; and in cinema's femmes fatales, from Louise Brooks, Garbo, and Dietrich to the fatal women of the 1990s.
520 8 $aFinally, the book makes shockingly clear how the parallel paths of the new style of misogyny and racism merged in the 1920s during the rise of nationalist politics - converging in Hitler's Mein Kampf and the politics of genocide.
650 0 $aWomen in popular culture$xHistory.
650 0 $aFemmes fatales$xHistory.
650 0 $aSexism$xHistory.
650 0 $aRacism$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110368
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