'This article explores a feminist critique of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series (2005-2008), analyzing the ways in which the tv-series is a symbolic backlash against feminism. Whereas previous vampire works depicted vampires as threats and outsiders to society, the Twilight series depicts the vampire characters as accepted in society, integrating their lives into mainstream society: as such, they highlight modern society’s fascination with female beauty ideals and physical beauty. '
Articles on class and femininity in Snog, Marry, Avoid, female “madness” in Insidious, gender representation and Frozen, postfeminism and Weeds, and teaching gender and race with The Golden Girls.
Author seeks to explain the configuration of lesbian violence in the film, Monster, by taking as its starting point this updated cinematic rehearsal in terms that rearticulate a materialist feminist advance on the film's particular projection of queerness while engaging a critical theoretical qualification of right-residual tendencies within materialist theory that ideologically cull same-sex love and desire between and for women into a likewise potentially damaging mythification of revolutionary praxis. In this way, the article seeks not to reconnect the divergent psychoanalytic and materialist strands of critical theory.