Explores fresh critical ground by addressing the intersection of two much debated and contentious concepts, postfeminism and Gothic. This collection of original essays examines a number of Gothic texts, from Anne Radcliffe's romances to modern horror...
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Explores fresh critical ground by addressing the intersection of two much debated and contentious concepts, postfeminism and Gothic. This collection of original essays examines a number of Gothic texts, from Anne Radcliffe's romances to modern horror films, in conjunction with diverse postfeminist theories, from backlash to postmodern feminism
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgement; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Postfeminist Gothic; 1 Dark Departures: Contemporary Women's Writing after the Gothic; 2 Neo-Splatter: Bride of Chucky and the Horror of Heteronormativity; 3 Bite-Size Pieces: Disassembling the Gothic Villain in Witchblade; 4 The Spectral Phallus: Re-Membering the Postfeminist Man; 5 (Re)Making the Body Beautiful: Postfeminist Cinderellas and Gothic Tales of Transformation; 6 The Stepford Wives: What's a Living Doll to Do in a Postfeminist World?
7 The Postfeminist Filmic Female Gothic Detective: Reading the Bodily Text in Candyman8 Moving beyond Waste to Celebration: The Postcolonial/Postfeminist Gothic of Nalo Hopkinson's "A Habit of Waste"; 9 George Elliott Clarke's Beatrice Chancy: Sublimity, Pain, Possibility; 10 Sensibility Gone Mad: Or, Drusilla, Buffy and the (D)evolution of the Heroine of Sensibility; 11 She: Gothic Reverberations in Star Trek: First Contact; 12 Flight of the Heroine; Index
