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9781526116895: She-wolf: A cultural history of female werewolves
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1526116898 ISBN 13: 9781526116895
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2017

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She-Wolf explores the cultural history of the female werewolf, from her first appearance in medieval literature to recent incarnations in film, television and popular literature.

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Hannah Priest is an Honorary Research Fellow at Swansea University

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She-wolf explores the cultural history of the female werewolf, from her first appearance in medieval literature to recent incarnations in film, television and popular literature. The book includes contributors from various disciplines, and offers a cross-period, interdisciplinary exploration of a perennially popular cultural production.

The essays in this collection explore the particular challenges female werewolves pose – to gender construction, to ideals of femininity and corporeality, to racial and sexual norms, and to our concepts of ‘human’ and ‘monster’. The book’s historical scope is broad, covering material from the Middle Ages to the present day. With chapters on folklore, history, witch trials, Victorian literature, young adult literature, film and gaming, the contributors offer a variety of critical approaches to the figure of the female werewolf. Considering issues such as religious and social contexts, colonialism, constructions of racial and gendered identities, corporeality and subjectivity – as well as female body hair, sexuality and violence – She-wolf reveals the varied ways in which the female werewolf is a manifestation of deep-rooted and complex cultural anxieties, as well as a site of continued fascination.

For scholars of popular culture, cultural history and gender studies, this is an essential study of a complex and multifaceted creation.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1526116898
ISBN 13 
9781526116895
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
Herausgeber
Priest Hannah
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