Description: Acknowledgments: For the "Supes" We Just Can't Live Without ix Introduction: "If a Tree Falls in the Woods, It's Still a Tree--Ain't It?" 1 Part One "I Used to Hate Vampires, Until I Got To Know One": Vampire-human Ethics 1 To Turn or Not to Turn: The Ethics of Making Vampires 7 Christopher Robichaud 2 Dressing Up and Playing Human: Vampire Assimilation in the Human Playground 19 Jennifer Culver 3 Pets, Cattle, and Higher Life Forms on True Blood 33 Ariadne Blayde and George A. Dunn Part Two "life-challenged Individuals": The Politics of Being Dead 4 Signed in Blood: Rights and the Vampire-Human Social Contract 51 Joseph J. Foy 5 "Honey, If We Can't Kill People, What's the Point of Being a Vampire?": Can Vampires Be Good Citizens? 65 William M. Curtis 6 Un-True Blood: The Politics of Artificiality 79 Bruce A. McClelland Part Three "their Very Blood Is Seductive": Eros, Sexuality, and Gender 7 Coming Out of the Coffin and Coming Out of the Closet 93 Patricia Brace and Robert Arp 8 "I Am Sookie, Hear Me Roar!": Sookie Stackhouse and Feminist Ambivalence 109 Lillian E. Craton and Kathryn E. Jonell 9 Sookie, Sigmund, and the Edible Complex 123 Ron Hirschbein Part Four "i Am Actually Older Than Your Jesus": Natural, Supernatural, and Divine 10 Let the Bon Temps Roll: Sacrifice, Scapegoats, and Good Times 139 Kevin J. Corn and George A. Dunn 11 Are Vampires Unnatural? 157 Andrew Terjesen and Jenny Terjesen 12 Does God Hate Fangs? 175 Adam Barkman Part Five "our Existence Is Insanity": the Metaphysics of Supernatural Beings 13 A Vampire's Heart Has Its Reasons That Scientific Naturalism Can't Understand 187 Susan Peppers-Bates and Joshua Rust 14 Keeping Secrets from Sookie 203 Fred Curry 15 Vampires, Werewolves, and Shapeshifters: The More They Change, the More They Stay the Same 215 Sarah Grubb Contributors: "I Don't Know Who You Think You Are, but Before the Night Is Through ." 229 Index: Sookie's Words of the Day 237

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