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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hobson, Amanda (Editor), Anyiwo, U. Melissa (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Rotterdam, The Netherlands ; Boston : Sense Publishers, [2016]
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.