LEADER 04058oam 22005532 450 001 9910812087103321 005 20230126222729.0 010 $a90-04-39410-9 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004394100 035 $a(CKB)4910000000122233 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5634165 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004394100 035 $a(EXLCZ)994910000000122233 100 $a20181031d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aGender warriors $ereading contemporary urban fantasy /$fedited by U. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson 210 1$aBoston :$cBrill Sense,$d[2019] 215 $a1 online resource (167 pages) 225 0 $aTeaching gender ;$vvolume 10 311 $a90-04-39409-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tCopyright page -- $tAdvanced Praise for Gender Warriors -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tIntroduction /$rAmanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo -- $tCreating the Urban Fantasy Heroine /$rCandace Benefiel -- $tEmpowering or Fetishizing /$rSarah A. Smith -- $tThe Vampiric Nature of Transmedia Storytelling in the Buffyverse /$rJenna Guitar -- $tBewitching Bodies /$rAmanda Jo Hobson -- $tFighting and Feminist Expression /$rLauren Rocha -- $tTough Women, Patriarchal Violence, and the Problem of Non-Intersectional Feminism in Les Wiseman?S Underworld Series /$rAna G. Gal -- $tThe Problematic Fan-Girl /$rCait Coker -- $tA Monstrous Narrative /$rU. Melissa Anyiwo -- $tThe Urban Fantasy Classroom /$rU. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson -- $tThe Urban Fantasy Universe /$rU. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson -- $tBack Matter -- $tNotes on Contributors. 330 $aGender Warriors: Reading Contemporary Urban Fantasy offers classroom-ready original essays outlining contemporary debates about sexual objectification and gender norms in urban fantasy and examining how those cultural categories are reinforced and unraveled. The essays explore the foundations and evolutions of urban fantasy and presentations of gendered identities in a wide variety of sources, focusing not only on popular examples, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Underworld , but also on less studied works, for instance Penny Dreadful and Anita Blake . The authors address the sociocultural institutions that bind gender to the body and shape our views of gendered norms, inviting students of all experience levels to engage in interdisciplinary conversations about both theoretical and embodied constructions of gender and the production of genre and generic conventions. The text unpacks cultural norms of gender and addresses issues of identity construction within an endlessly evolving genre. This collection demonstrates the way that representations of gender and the kick-ass female urban fantasy warrior have upended and reinforced a broad range of expectations and tropes, making it a fascinating text for any course, such as first-year studies, literature, film, gender studies, sociology, cultural studies, history, and more. 410 0$aTeaching Gender$v10. 606 $aFantasy fiction, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFantasy in mass media 606 $aObjectification (Social psychology) in literature 606 $aObjectification (Social psychology) in mass media 606 $aGender identity in literature 606 $aGender identity in mass media 615 0$aFantasy fiction, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFantasy in mass media. 615 0$aObjectification (Social psychology) in literature. 615 0$aObjectification (Social psychology) in mass media. 615 0$aGender identity in literature. 615 0$aGender identity in mass media. 676 $a813.0876609353 702 $aAnyiwo$b U. Melissa 702 $aHobson$b Amanda 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812087103321 996 $aGender warriors$94037869 997 $aUNINA