Research Catalog

Title

Gender warriors : reading contemporary urban fantasy / edited by U. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Sense, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Anyiwo, U. Melissa
• Hobson, Amanda

Description

x, 163 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"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, Vampire Hunter Series. 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"--

Series Statement

Teaching gender ; volume 10

Uniform Title

Teaching gender ; v. 10.

Subjects

• Gender identity in literature
• Gender identity in mass media
• Objectification (Social psychology) in mass media
• Fantasy in mass media
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Objectification (Social psychology) in literature
• Fantasy fiction, American > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction: what is urban fantasy? / Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo -- Creating the urban fantasy heroine: gender displacement in Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series / Candace Benefiel -- Empowering or fetishizing: Wonder Woman takes the Bechdel test / Sarah A. Smith -- The vampiric nature of transmedia storytelling in the Buffyverse / Jenna Guitar -- Bewitching bodies: sex, violence, and magic in urban fantasy / Amanda Jo Hobson -- Fighting and feminist expression: the Argent family and the limits of female agency in Teen Wolf / 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: Cassandra Clare's gendered revisions in the Mortal Instruments series / Cait Coker -- A monstrous narrative: unraveling gender and ethnic archetypes in Showtime's Penny Dreadful / U. Melissa Anyiwo -- The urban fantasy classroom / U. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson -- The urban fantasy universe: or what to read or watch next / U. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson.

Call Number

JFE 20-4687

ISBN

• 9789004394087
• 9004394087
• 9789004394094
• 9004394095
• 9789004394100 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018051697

OCLC

1066189855

Title

Gender warriors : reading contemporary urban fantasy / edited by U. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Sense, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Teaching gender ; volume 10

Teaching gender ; v. 10.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Anyiwo, U. Melissa, editor.

Hobson, Amanda, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Gender warriors. Boston : Brill Sense, [2019] 9789004394100 (DLC) 2018059239

Research Call Number

JFE 20-4687