Gender in the vampire narrative /
"Gender in the Vampire Narrative addresses issues of masculinity and femininity, unpacking cultural norms of gender. This collection demonstrates the way that representations of gender in the vampire narrative traverse a large scope of expectations and tropes. The text offers classroom ready or...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Rotterdam, The Netherlands ; Boston :
Sense Publishers,
[2016]
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| Series: | Teaching gender ;
v. 8. |
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Table of Contents:
- Dark seductress : the hypersexualization of the female vampire / Amanda Hobson
- Hybrid heroines and the naturalization of women's violence in urban fantasy fiction / Kristina Deffenbacher
- Men that suck : gender anxieties and the evolution of vampire men / Kristina Durocher
- "There will never be more than two of us" : the Twilight saga's Monstrous Mothers / Amanda Firestone
- Sex, blood, and death : vampires and child-rearing / Benita Blessing
- Beautifully broken : True Blood's Tara Thornton as the black best friend / U. Melissa Anyiwo
- A feminist bloodletting : reading suicide in Florence Marryat and Angela Carter / Ryan D. Fong
- Vampiras and Vampiresas : Latinas in the graphic novels Bite Club and Life Sucks / Lisa A. Nevarez
- "You were such a good girl when you were human" : gender and subversion in The Vampire Diaries / Rhonda Nicol
- Performance femininity and female invalidism in John Keats's "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and S.T. Coleridge's Christabel Ana G. Gal
- The female vampire in popular culture : or what to read or watch next / U.Melissa Anyiwo.