This collection of new essays looks carefully at the broad spectrum of Neil Gaiman's work and how he interacts with feminism. Sixteen diverse essays from Gaiman scholars examine highlights from Gaiman's graphic novels, short stories, novels, poems and screenplays, and confront the difficult issues he raises, including femininity, the male gaze, issues of age discrimination, rape, and feminine agency. Altogether the essays probe the difficult and complex representation of women and issues of femininity in the worlds of Neil Gaiman.
This collection of new essays looks carefully at the broad spectrum of Neil Gaiman's work and how he interacts with feminism. Sixteen diverse essays from Gaiman scholars examine highlights from Gaiman's graphic novels, short stories, novels, poems and screenplays, and confront the difficult issues he raises, including femininity, the male gaze, issues of age discrimination, rape, and feminine agency. Altogether the essays probe the difficult and complex representation of women and issues of femininity in the worlds of Neil Gaiman.
Tara Prescott is a lecturer in Writing Programs at the University of California, Los Angeles. She lives in Los Angeles. Aaron Drucker is an instructor in Los Angeles.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction AARON DRUCKER and TARA PRESCOTT A Note on Citation Speaking the Cacophony of Angels: Gaiman's Women and the Fracturing of Phallocentric Discourse RACHEL R. MARTIN The Power of the Perky: The Feminist Rhetoric of Death LANETTE CADLE Agency Through Fragmentation? The Problem of Delirium in The Sandman JUSTIN MELLETTE It's Pretty Graphic: Sexual Violence and the Issue of "Calliope" TARA PRESCOTT Empowering Voice and Refiguring Retribution: Neil Gaiman's Anti-Feminism Feminist Parable in The Sandman AARON DRUCKER Feminist Subjectivity in Neil Gaiman's Black Orchid SARAH CANTRELL When Superheroes Awaken: The Revisionist Trope in Neil Gaiman's Marvel 1602 RENATA DALMASO Outfoxed: Feminine Folklore and Agency in The Dream Hunters CORALLINE DUPUY "A boy and his box, off to see the universe": Madness, Power and Sex in "The Doctor's Wife" EMILY CAPETTINI Unmasking M(other)hood: Third-Wave Mothering in Gaiman's Coraline and MirrorMask DANIELLE RUSSELL The Fairest of All: Snow White and Gendered Power in "Snow, Glass, Apples" ELIZABETH LAW Inverting the Fairy Tale: The Value of the Complex Female in "Chivalry" JENNIFER MCSTOTTS Feminist Fairy Tales in Who Killed Amanda Palmer MONICA MILLER Liminality and Empowerment: The Aged Woman in Neil Gaiman's "Queen of Knives" and "Chivalry" AGATA ZARZYCKA "Anathema liked to read about herself ": Preserving the Female Line in Good Omens JESSICA WALKER Doors, Vortices and the In-Between: Quantum Cosmological Goddesses in the Gaiman Multiverse KRISTINE LARSEN About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction AARON DRUCKER and TARA PRESCOTT A Note on Citation Speaking the Cacophony of Angels: Gaiman's Women and the Fracturing of Phallocentric Discourse RACHEL R. MARTIN The Power of the Perky: The Feminist Rhetoric of Death LANETTE CADLE Agency Through Fragmentation? The Problem of Delirium in The Sandman JUSTIN MELLETTE It's Pretty Graphic: Sexual Violence and the Issue of "Calliope" TARA PRESCOTT Empowering Voice and Refiguring Retribution: Neil Gaiman's Anti-Feminism Feminist Parable in The Sandman AARON DRUCKER Feminist Subjectivity in Neil Gaiman's Black Orchid SARAH CANTRELL When Superheroes Awaken: The Revisionist Trope in Neil Gaiman's Marvel 1602 RENATA DALMASO Outfoxed: Feminine Folklore and Agency in The Dream Hunters CORALLINE DUPUY "A boy and his box, off to see the universe": Madness, Power and Sex in "The Doctor's Wife" EMILY CAPETTINI Unmasking M(other)hood: Third-Wave Mothering in Gaiman's Coraline and MirrorMask DANIELLE RUSSELL The Fairest of All: Snow White and Gendered Power in "Snow, Glass, Apples" ELIZABETH LAW Inverting the Fairy Tale: The Value of the Complex Female in "Chivalry" JENNIFER MCSTOTTS Feminist Fairy Tales in Who Killed Amanda Palmer MONICA MILLER Liminality and Empowerment: The Aged Woman in Neil Gaiman's "Queen of Knives" and "Chivalry" AGATA ZARZYCKA "Anathema liked to read about herself ": Preserving the Female Line in Good Omens JESSICA WALKER Doors, Vortices and the In-Between: Quantum Cosmological Goddesses in the Gaiman Multiverse KRISTINE LARSEN About the Contributors Index
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