Gender warriors : reading contemporary urban fantasy /

"Gender Warriors: Reading Contemporary Urban Fantasy offers classroom-ready original essays outlining contemporary debates about sexual objectification and gender norms in urban fantasy and examining how those cultural categories are reinforced and unraveled. The essays explore the foundations...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Anyiwo, U. Melissa (Editor ), Hobson, Amanda (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Sense, [2019]
Colección:Teaching gender ; v. 10.
Temas:
Fantasy fiction, American > History and criticism.
Fantasy in mass media.
Objectification (Social psychology) in literature.
Objectification (Social psychology) in mass media.
Gender identity in literature.
Gender identity in mass media.
Fantastique dans les médias.
Objectification (Psychologie sociale) dans les médias.
Identité de genre dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Objectification (Social psychology) in mass media
Fantasy fiction, American
Fantasy in mass media
Gender identity in literature
Gender identity in mass media
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: what is urban fantasy? / Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo
  • Creating the urban fantasy heroine: gender displacement in Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series / Candace Benefiel
  • Empowering or fetishizing: Wonder Woman takes the Bechdel test / Sarah A. Smith
  • The vampiric nature of transmedia storytelling in the Buffyverse / Jenna Guitar
  • Bewitching bodies: sex, violence, and magic in urban fantasy / Amanda Jo Hobson
  • Fighting and feminist expression: the Argent family and the limits of female agency in Teen Wolf / Lauren Rocha
  • Tough women, patriarchal violence, and the problem of non-intersectional feminism in Les Wiseman's Underworld series / Ana G. Gal
  • The problematic fan-girl: Cassandra Clare's gendered revisions in the Mortal Instruments series / Cait Coker
  • A monstrous narrative: unraveling gender and ethnic archetypes in Showtime's Penny Dreadful / U. Melissa Anyiwo
  • The urban fantasy classroom / U. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson
  • The urban fantasy universe: or what to read or watch next / U. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson.

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