Gender warriors : reading contemporary urban fantasy /
Gender warriors : reading contemporary urban fantasy /
edited by U. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson.
- 1 online resource.
- Teaching gender ; volume 10 Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390836 .
- Teaching Gender 10. Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390836. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Advanced Praise for Gender Warriors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Creating the Urban Fantasy Heroine / Empowering or Fetishizing / The Vampiric Nature of Transmedia Storytelling in the Buffyverse / Bewitching Bodies / Fighting and Feminist Expression / Tough Women, Patriarchal Violence, and the Problem of Non-Intersectional Feminism in Les Wiseman’S Underworld Series / The Problematic Fan-Girl / A Monstrous Narrative / The Urban Fantasy Classroom / The Urban Fantasy Universe / Back Matter -- Notes on Contributors. Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo -- Candace Benefiel -- Sarah A. Smith -- Jenna Guitar -- Amanda Jo Hobson -- Lauren Rocha -- Ana G. Gal -- Cait Coker -- U. Melissa Anyiwo -- U. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson -- U. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson --
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 and evolutions of urban fantasy and presentations of gendered identities in a wide variety of sources, focusing not only on popular examples, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Underworld , but also on less studied works, for instance Penny Dreadful and Anita Blake . The authors address the sociocultural institutions that bind gender to the body and shape our views of gendered norms, inviting students of all experience levels to engage in interdisciplinary conversations about both theoretical and embodied constructions of gender and the production of genre and generic conventions. The text unpacks cultural norms of gender and addresses issues of identity construction within an endlessly evolving genre. This collection demonstrates the way that representations of gender and the kick-ass female urban fantasy warrior have upended and reinforced a broad range of expectations and tropes, making it a fascinating text for any course, such as first-year studies, literature, film, gender studies, sociology, cultural studies, history, and more.
9789004394100
10.1163/9789004394100 DOI
2018051697
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.
PS374.F27 / G43 2019
813/.0876609353
Includes bibliographical references.
Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Advanced Praise for Gender Warriors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Creating the Urban Fantasy Heroine / Empowering or Fetishizing / The Vampiric Nature of Transmedia Storytelling in the Buffyverse / Bewitching Bodies / Fighting and Feminist Expression / Tough Women, Patriarchal Violence, and the Problem of Non-Intersectional Feminism in Les Wiseman’S Underworld Series / The Problematic Fan-Girl / A Monstrous Narrative / The Urban Fantasy Classroom / The Urban Fantasy Universe / Back Matter -- Notes on Contributors. Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo -- Candace Benefiel -- Sarah A. Smith -- Jenna Guitar -- Amanda Jo Hobson -- Lauren Rocha -- Ana G. Gal -- Cait Coker -- U. Melissa Anyiwo -- U. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson -- U. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson --
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 and evolutions of urban fantasy and presentations of gendered identities in a wide variety of sources, focusing not only on popular examples, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Underworld , but also on less studied works, for instance Penny Dreadful and Anita Blake . The authors address the sociocultural institutions that bind gender to the body and shape our views of gendered norms, inviting students of all experience levels to engage in interdisciplinary conversations about both theoretical and embodied constructions of gender and the production of genre and generic conventions. The text unpacks cultural norms of gender and addresses issues of identity construction within an endlessly evolving genre. This collection demonstrates the way that representations of gender and the kick-ass female urban fantasy warrior have upended and reinforced a broad range of expectations and tropes, making it a fascinating text for any course, such as first-year studies, literature, film, gender studies, sociology, cultural studies, history, and more.
9789004394100
10.1163/9789004394100 DOI
2018051697
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.
PS374.F27 / G43 2019
813/.0876609353