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"George R.R. Martin's acclaimed seven-book fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire is unique for its strong and multi-faceted female protagonists, from teen queen Daenerys, scheming Queen Cersei, child avenger Arya, knight Brienne, Red Witch Melisandre, and many more. The Game of Thrones universe challenges, exploits, yet also changes how we think of women and gender, not only in fantasy, but in Western culture in general. Divided into three sections addressing questions of adaptation from novel to television, female characters, and politics and female audience engagement within the GoT universe, the interdisciplinary and international lineup of contributors analyze gender in relation to female characters and topics such as genre, sex, violence, adaptation, and fan fictions and fan reviews. The genre of fantasy was once considered a primarily male territory with male heroes. Women of Ice and Fire shows how the GoT universe challenges, exploits, and reimagines gender and why it holds strong appeal to female readers, audiences, and online participants"-- Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction / Rikke Schubart & Anne Gjelsvik -- PART ONE. ADAPTING WOMEN -- Chapter 1: Adapting Sex: Cultural Conceptions of Sexuality in Words and Images / Mariah Larsson -- Chapter 2: Adapting Desire in Ros and Talisa: Prostitutes, Wives and Smallfolk / Shannon Wells-Lassagne -- Chapter 3: Unspeakable Acts of (Sexual) Terror as/in Quality Television / Anne Gjelsvik -- Chapter 4: Unconcealable Fire: Performance and Travel in Brienne, Daenerys and Arya / Jason Jacobs -- PART TWO. FEMALE CHARACTERS -- Chapter 5: Pride, Postfeminism and Daenerys as Female Fantasy Hero / Rikke Schubart -- Chapter 6: The Women of Westeros: A Dialogic Revision of Fairy-Tale Fantasy / Angela Ndalianis -- Chapter 7: Power Play: Mainstream Fantasy, Flawed Characters and Network Narratives / Helle Kannik Haastrup -- Chapter 8: Mother, Maiden, Crone: Motherhood in Westeros / Marta Eidsvåg -- Chapter 9: Gender Transgression, Cross-Dressing and the Warrior Figure / Yvonne Tasker and Lindsay Steenberg -- PART THREE. POLITICS AND RECEPTION -- Chapter 10: Fantasy Women and Real Power: On Visual and Narrative Discourse in Cersei, Daenerys and Sansa / Holger Pötzsch -- Chapter 11: Female Machiavellian Princes in Westeros / Elizabeth Beaton -- Chapter 12: The Expert GoT Fan Review on YouTube: Transmediality and Power Play / Susana Tosca & Lisbeth Klastrup -- Chapter 13: Writing GoT Slash Fan Fiction: Female Fan's Oppositional Desires and Fantasies / Line Nybro Petersen -- Chapter 14: "I'm not going to fight them, I'm going to fuck them": Sexist Liberalism and Gender (A)Politics in Game of Thrones / Stéphanie Genz.
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