Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Popular Fantasy Beyond Boy Wizards and 'Kick-Ass' Chicks
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish date: 06/27/2016
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Introduction, Jude Roberts and Esther McCallum-Stewart 1. Hiding in plain sight: the invisibility of queer fantasy, Stephen Kenneally 2. Queering magic: Robin Hobb and fantasy literature's radical potential, Lenise Prater 3. It takes a pack to raise a child: anti-conservatism and the non-normative family in Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series, Katharine Harris 4. Strange boys, queer boys: gay representations in young adult fantastic fiction, Andrew M. Butler 5. Even better than the real thing: fantasy and phantasy in Boys' Love manga, Anna Madill 6. Turning people into things: object relations and posthuman reproduction in weird short fiction, Lisa Bennett 7. 'Everything's interconnected': anarchy, ecology and sexuality in Lost Girls and Swamp Thing , Matthew J. A. Green 8. Playing past the 'straight male gamer': from modding Edwin(a) to bisexual Zevran, Steven Holmes 9. Playing with gender: (re-)imagining men and women in fantasy board games, Adam Brown and Deb Waterhouse-Watson 10. Supernatural hymens and bodies from hell: screening virginity through the gothic body, Katherine Farrimond 11. The tale of the women: gender, gender roles, and sexuality in Emma Donoghue's Kissing the Witch , Keridwen N. Luis Index
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