Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4135-9 (ISBN)
Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death: Monstrous Males/Fatal Females examines representations of the supernatural dead to demonstrate shifts in the manifestation of gender. Including readings of East Asian detectives/cyborgs, Iranian vampires, and African zombies, among others, This collection offers a multi-faceted look at myth, legend, and popular culture representations of the gendered supernatural from a broad range of international contexts. The contributors show that, as creatures pass through the liminal space of death, their new supernatural forms challenge cultural conceptions of gender, masculinity, and femininity.
Rebecca Gibson is adjunct professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Indiana University South Bend and the department of anthropology at American University. James M. VanderVeen is an archaeologist and professor of anthropology at Indiana University South Bend.
Table of Contents
Preface
Rebecca Gibson
Section One: Introduction
Chapter 1: Transformation and Liminal Space within Fiction and Folklore
Freya Fenton
Section Two: Social Death/Cyborg Transformation
Chapter 2: Vengeful Monsters, Shapeshifting Cyborgs, and Alien Spider Queens: The Monstrous-Feminine in Netflix’s Love, Death & Robots
Sarah Stang
Chapter 3: “We’re All, In the End, Part of the Same Great Thing”: Gender, Death, and Memory in Aliette de Bodard’s The Tea Master and the Detective
Alex Claman
Chapter 4: “The House Wants Me to Stay”: Mothers, Wives and Sex Objects in the Haunted House Subgenre
Victor Hernández-Santaolalla
Section Three: Between Life and Death
Chapter 5: To Slay or Not to Slay: Gender, Liminality, and Choice in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Chelsi Slotten
Chapter 6: Fear Itself: The Vampire as Moral Panic
Holly Walters
Chapter 7: Gay Bloodsucker or Post-Soviet Buzzkill? Vampiric Possibilities in Sektor Gaza
Lev Nikulin
Chapter 8: From Femme Fatale to Fat
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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| Co-Autor | Sarah Stang, F.C. Fenton, Matt Coward-Gibbs |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 164 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 494 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7936-4135-8 / 1793641358 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-4135-9 / 9781793641359 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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