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Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death: Monstrous Males/Fatal Females examines how gender changes and manifests in stories and film through several different types of beings. With sections on social death, the walking dead, and the undead, this is a multi-faceted look at myth, legend, and popular culture creatures.
List of contents
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 Fatal Female: Vampiric Power as Coded Female in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and Only Lovers Left Alive
Rebecca Gibson
Section Four: Reanimation with Sentience
Chapter 9: Masculinity, and Not Femininity, As Gendered "Nature" in Cinematic Adaptations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Devi Snively and Agustín Fuentes
Chapter 10: The Animated Dead: Reimagining the Beautiful Corpse in Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Gillian Wittstock
Chapter 11: Sexual Encounters Between the Living and the (Un)dead in Popular Culture
Matt Coward-Gibbs and Bethan Michael-Fox
Section Five: Reanimation without Sentience
Chapter 12: Behind the Door: Sukuma Mitunga (Zombie) Narratives as Social Critique in Northwestern Tanzania
Amy Nichols-Belo
Chapter 13: Does Death Destroy the Binary? A Look at Gender Roles During Human/Zombie Interaction in the World War Z Universe
Rebecca Gibson and James M. VanderVeen
Afterlife and Afterword
James M. VanderVeen
About the author
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.
