Monstrous Bodies: Feminine Power in Young Adult Horror Fiction
Author:   June Pulliam
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:  

9780786475438


Pages:   200
Publication Date:   08 August 2014
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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Recent works of young adult fantastic fiction such as Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga have been criticized for glamorizing feminine subordination. But YA horror fiction with female protagonists who have paranormal abilities suggests a resistance to restrictive gender roles. The ""monstrous Other"" is a double with a difference, a metaphor of the Western adolescent girl pressured to embody an untenable doll-like feminine ideal. This book examines what each of three types of female monstrous Others in young adult fiction--the haunted girl, the female werewolf and the witch--has to tell us about feminine subordination in a supposedly post-feminist world, where girls continue to be pressured to silence their voices and stifle their desires.

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Author:   June Pulliam
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.277kg
ISBN:  

9780786475438


ISBN 10:   0786475439
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   08 August 2014
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Subversive Spirits: Resistance and the Uncanny in the Young Adult Ghost Story Chapter 2. Blood and Bitches: Sexual Politics and the Female Lycanthrope in Young Adult Fiction Chapter 3. “An ye harm none, do as ye will”: Magic, Gender and Agency in Young Adult Narratives of Witchcraft Conclusion Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

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June Pulliam teaches courses on horror fiction and adolescent literature at Louisiana State University. She edits Dead Reckonings: A Review Magazine for the Horror Field and wrote Encyclopedia of the Zombie. She lives in Baton Rouge.

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