Gender in the vampire narrative / / edited by Amanda Hobson, U. Melissa Anyiwo.

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 original...

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Superior document:Teaching Gender ; Volume 8
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Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] ;, Taipei, [Taiwan] : : Sense Publishers,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Language:English
Series:Teaching gender ; Volume 8.
Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 196 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / U. Melissa Anyiwo
  • Introduction / Amanda Hobson
  • Dark Seductress / Amanda Hobson
  • Hybrid Heroines and the Naturalization of Women’s Violence in Urban Fantasy Fiction / Kristina Deffenbacher
  • Men That Suck / Kristina Durocher
  • “There Will Never Be More Than Two of Us” / Amanda Firestone
  • Sex, Blood, and Death / Benita Blessing
  • Beautifully Broken / U. Melissa Anyiwo
  • A Feminist Bloodletting / Ryan D. Fong
  • Vampiras and Vampiresas / Lisa A. Nevárez
  • “You Were Such a Good Girl When You Were Human” / Rhonda Nicol
  • Performative 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 / U. Melissa Anyiwo
  • About the Contributors / Patricia Leavy.