Elyce Rae Helford, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA is
professor of English and faculty in women's and gender studies at
Middle Tennessee State University.
Shiloh Carroll, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA is
instructor in the writing center at Middle Tennessee State
University. Along with Sarah Gray and Michael R. Howard II, she
organized the conference ""Catwoman to Katniss: Villainesses and
Heroines in Science Fiction.""
Sarah Gray, Nashville, Tennessee, USA is a
graduate student in English at Middle Tennessee State University.
Along with Shiloh Carroll and Michael R. Howard II, she organized
the conference ""Catwoman to Katniss: Villainesses and Heroines in
Science Fiction.""
Michael R. Howard II, Edmond, Oklahoma, USA is a
graduate student in English at Middle Tennessee State University.
He is also assistant professor and Writing Center Director at
Langston College. Along with Shiloh Carroll and Sarah Gray, he
organized the conference ""Catwoman to Katniss: Villainesses and
Heroines in Science Fiction.
A lively and engaging collection that explores the meaning of
strong female figures in popular culture. From She-Hulk to Sansa
Stark, this book analyzes the images, plots, and cultural
significance of characters we love. You will see the female
fantastic in a new way after reading this book.--Robin Roberts,
author of books on gender and popular culture, including Anne
McCaffrey: A Life with Dragons; Ladies First: Women in Music
Videos; and Subversive Spirits: The Female Ghost in British and
American Popular Culture
As recent internet debates and debacles (e.g. the hijacking of the
Hugo Awards) have shown, feminism has had to re-fight old wars in
new media battlefields, such as comics, games, and the poisoned
pixels of internet discourse. Elyce Rae Helford, Shiloh Carroll,
Sarah Gray, and Michael R. Howard II have assembled a set of
fascinating readings on what they call the 'women fantastic, '
which includes fantastic women like Buffy and Wonder Woman but also
the entire field of the fantastic as a discourse in dialogue with
gender. The articles gathered here touch on topics ranging from
corporate media empires to fan resistance, and from body
modification to virtual identities.--Brian Attebery, editor of the
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and author of Stories about
Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth and Decoding Gender in
Science Fiction
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