a gender studies primer for the Buffy fan
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Lorna, Jowett
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2005
- Thesaurus
- televisie, seksualiteit, vrouwelijkheid, mannelijkheid
- Description
- yTaking a feminist cultural studies approach, Jowett explores the ways in which the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer represents femininity, masculinity, and gendered relations, including sexuality and sexual orientation. The series provides an introduction to the most important theoretical and historical underpinnings of contemporary gender criticism as it examines a range of thought-provoking issues: role reversal, the tension between feminism and femininity, the “crisis” of masculinity, gender hybridity, the appeal of bad girls, romance, and changing family structures. Through this introductory analysis, Jowett shows that Buffy presents a contradictory mixture of “subversive” and “conservative” images of gender roles and as such is a key example of the complexity of gender representation in contemporary television