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Outlander's sassenachs : essays on gender, race, orientation and the other in the novels and television series

Title
Outlander's sassenachs : essays on gender, race, orientation and the other in the novels and television series / edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel.
Publication
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]

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Additional Authors
Frankel, Valerie Estelle, 1980-
Description
164 pages; 22 cm
Summary
"Both show and books address many issues most series shy away from--breast feeding, abortion, birth control. As the heroes encounter all the complications of a marriage, along with life in their wider community, they make discoveries about gender that resonate with all their fans here in the modern world.]"--
Subject
  • Gabaldon, Diana
  • Outlander (Television program)
  • Sex role in literature
  • Sex role on television
  • Race in literature
  • Race on television
  • Identity (Psychology) in literature
  • Identity (Psychology) on television
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part 1: Questions of diversity -- Privilege and pity: Jamie on slavery, racism and disability / Valerie Estelle Frankel -- Culloden and Wounded Knee: genocide, identity and cultural survival / Sandi Solis -- Claire kens well: appropriation and itinerant performance in Outlander onscreen / Elizabeth Elaine Tavares -- Part 2: Eighteenth-century masculinity gazing at Jamie Fraser / Araceli R. Lopez -- Jamie's "others": complicating masculinity and heroism through his foils / Jennifer Phillips -- Being Lord John: homosexual life in Georgian London / Valerie Estelle Frankel -- Part 3: Women's choice for time travelers men, women and birth control in the early Outlander books / Nicole M. duPlessis -- The Beaton: healing as empowerment for Claire Beauchamp / Sarah Stegall -- Part 4: Claire as feminist, postfeminist, anti-feminist -- Reviewing linear time: history repeating all over again (now, against you) / Fernando Garbriel Pagnoni Berns and Leonardo G.A. Lando -- The way we were: nostalgia, romance and anti-feminism / Victoria Kennedy -- Outlander from book to screen: power in gender and orientation / Yvonne D. Leach -- -- Appendix A: Book reading order -- Appendix B: Television episode guide -- Appendix C: Television cast -- About the contributors.
Call Number
JFE 16-11217
ISBN
  • 9781476664248 (softcover : alk. paper)
  • 1476664242 (softcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
2016026571
OCLC
952390058
Title
Outlander's sassenachs : essays on gender, race, orientation and the other in the novels and television series / edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel.
Publisher
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Frankel, Valerie Estelle, 1980- editor.
Research Call Number
JFE 16-11217
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