Tag: Power

• Bluebeard & the Final Girl: Feminist Retellings of Perrault’s Classic

  

  Sonya Vatomsky is here to examine the myth of Bluebeard, Perrault’s text as a canonical work, is in dire need of retelling. Culturally, Bluebeard has found itself linked more to temptation/knowledge narratives like the Garden of Eden and Pandora’s Box than to narratives of heroic escape from monstrous kings and ogres. This in itself is…

  Death and the Maiden

  09/02/2017

  Guest Post

  Bluebeard, Bride, Charles Perrault, Culture, Deadmaidens, Fairytales, Female Curiosity, Feminism, Final Girl, Folklore, Gender, Gender Roles, Genre, Marriage, Murder, Narrative, Perrault, Power, Retelling, Story, Women

• The Privilege of a Good Death

  Who is more likely to access a good death? Who is more likely to face a bad death? While tragic accidents tend to be great equalizers, we cannot make whole a death positive movement without addressing how privilege grants likelier access to a good death, and how oppression can position someone more likely to face…

  Death and the Maiden

  27/11/2016

  Guest Post

  active, Activism, Attitudes, Caitlin Doughty, Deadmaidens, Death Positive, Education, Good Death, Medical, Missing Women, Murder, Police, Power, social justice, Support

• Death and the Birth of Feminism 

  Whether you believe the Fox sisters possessed supernatural powers or were masters of deception, one thing is for sure. What began as a rapping on the wall quickly became fame & fortune. Spiritualism was at its height & provided a platform for women to speak out. Death & the Maiden’s Sarah Chavez explains that women became…

  Death and the Maiden

  04/01/2016

  Guest Post, Maiden Post, Sarah Troop

  America, Celebrity, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Fox Sisters, Gender, ghosts, History, Mystery, New York, Power, Society, Spiritualism