Being a Girl with The Doctor: Essays on the Feminine in Doctor Who

Author:   Gillian I. Leitch ,  Sherry Ginn
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
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9781476689531


Pages:   277
Publication Date:   31 December 2023
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
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Author:   Gillian I. Leitch ,  Sherry Ginn
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9781476689531


ISBN 10:   1476689539
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   31 December 2023
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Table of Contents Preface—""Traveling"" in the Time of Covid: Tenacious, Addlepated, Rumbustical, Daunting, Insuperable, Stupefying Sherry Ginn and Gillian I. Leitch Introduction—Boldly Going Where No Doctor Had Gone Before … Until Thirteen Sherry Ginn and Gillian I. Leitch Who Says the Doctor Ever Had a Penis? Caroline-Isabelle Caron ""Come on, Ace! We've got work to do"": The Development of the Modern Companion on Doctor Michael G. Robinson Femininity and Indigeneity: Leela in Doctor Gillian I. Leitch ""Give me some of that ­Nitro-9 you're not carrying"": Ace as an Intuitive ­Anarcha-Feminist in the Cartmel Lynne M. Thomas Reclaiming Her Agency: The Life and Times of Dr. Martha Jones Sherry Ginn ""Is that really what we've learned today?"" Revising Clara Oswald on Doctor Heather M. McHale The ""Other"" Women in the Whoniverse: The Social Significance of Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint, and Bill Potts Lynnette Porter Hope Persists: Overcoming Trauma as Thirteen, the Doctor of Hope Pamela Achenbach ""Are you my mummy?"" Mothering Monsters and the Contradictions of Motherhood in Doctor Zara T. Wilkinson Filmography About the Contributors Index"

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Gillian I. Leitch is an independent scholar and historical researcher and is currently co-chair of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area of the PCA. She lives in Ottawa, Ontario. Sherry Ginn is a retired educator currently living in North Carolina. She has authored books examining female characters on science fiction television series as well as the multiple television worlds of Joss Whedon. Edited collections have examined sex in science fiction, time travel, the apocalypse, and the award-winning series Farscape, Doctor Who, and Fringe.

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