Gender warriors : : reading contemporary urban fantasy / / edited by 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 ev...

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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : Brill Sense,, [2019]
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Teaching Gender 10.
Physical Description:1 online resource (167 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Advanced Praise for Gender Warriors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction / Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo
  • Creating the Urban Fantasy Heroine / Candace Benefiel
  • Empowering or Fetishizing / Sarah A. Smith
  • The Vampiric Nature of Transmedia Storytelling in the Buffyverse / Jenna Guitar
  • Bewitching Bodies / Amanda Jo Hobson
  • Fighting and Feminist Expression / 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 / Cait Coker
  • A Monstrous Narrative / U. Melissa Anyiwo
  • The Urban Fantasy Classroom / U. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson
  • The Urban Fantasy Universe / U. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson
  • Back Matter
  • Notes on Contributors.