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Gender in the Vampire Narrative

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Editors:
  1. Amanda Hobson

    1. Indiana State University, USA

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  2. U. Melissa Anyiwo

    1. Curry College, Massachusetts, USA

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  • Gender in the Vampire Narrative is the only text that fully explores gender in the vampire narrative across popular culture forms.
  • Through original essays, Gender in the Vampire Narrative explores presentations of gender in the vampire narrative in novels, films, graphic novels and theatre.
  • Gender in the Vampire Narrative contributes significantly to understandings about gender presentation in popular culture through interdisciplinary essays on vampire narratives across mediums.
  • Original essays explore gender in popular examples of vampire narratives, including The Vampire Diaries, True Blood and Twilight, as well as lesser-known examples, including Byzantium and The Blood of the Vampire.

Part of the book series: Teaching Gender (GEND)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Amanda Hobson
    Pages 1-8

  3. Dark Seductress

    • Amanda Hobson
    Pages 9-27

  4. Hybrid Heroines and the Naturalization of Women’s Violence in Urban Fantasy Fiction

    • Kristina Deffenbacher
    Pages 29-44

  5. Men That Suck

    • Kristina Durocher
    Pages 45-59

  6. “There Will Never Be More Than Two of US”

    • Amanda Firestone
    Pages 61-78

  7. Sex, Blood, and Death

    • Benita Blessing
    Pages 79-91

  8. Beautifully Broken

    • U. Melissa Anyiwo
    Pages 93-108

  9. A Feminist Bloodletting

    • Ryan D. Fong
    Pages 109-123

  10. Vampiras and Vampiresas

    • Lisa A. Nevárez
    Pages 125-143

  11. “You Were Such a Good Girl When You Were Human”

    • Rhonda Nicol
    Pages 145-160

  12. Performative Femininity and Female Invalidism in John Keats’s “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” and S.T. Coleridge’s Christabel

    • Ana G. Gal
    Pages 161-171

  13. The Female Vampire in Popular Culture

    • U. Melissa Anyiwo
    Pages 173-192

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 193-196
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About this book

Gender in the Vampire Narrative addresses issues of masculinity and femininity, unpacking cultural norms of gender. This collection demonstrates the way that representations of gender in the vampire narrative traverse a large scope of expectations and tropes. The text offers classroom ready original essays that outline contemporary debates about sexual objectification and gender norms using the lens of the vampire in order to examine the ways those roles are undone and reinforced through popular culture through a specific emphasis on cultural fears and anxieties about gender roles. The essays explore the presentations of gendered identities in a wide variety of sources including novels, films, graphic novels and more, focusing on wildly popular examples, such as The Vampire Diaries, True Blood, and Twilight, and also lesser known works, for instance, Byzantium and The Blood of the Vampire. The authors work to unravel the ties that bind gender to the body and the sociocultural institutions that shape our views of gendered norms and invite students of all levels to engage in interdisciplinary conversations about both theoretical and embodied constructions of gender. This text makes a fascinating accompanying text for many courses, such as first-year studies, literature, film, women’s and gender studies, sociology, popular culture or media studies, cultural studies, American studies or history. Ultimately this is a text for all fans of popular culture.


“Hobson and Anyiwo chase the vampire through history and across literature, film, television, and stage, exploring this complexity and offering insightful and accessible analyses that will be enjoyed by students in popular culture, gender studies, and speculative fiction. This collection is not to be missed by those with an interest in feminist cultural studies – or the undead.” – Barbara Gurr, University of Connecticut


“Hobson and Anyiwo push the boundaries of the scholarship as it has been written until now.” –Catherine Coker, Texas A&M University


Amanda Hobson is Assistant Dean of Students and Director of the Women’s Resource Center at Indiana State University.


U. Melissa Anyiwo is a Professor of Politics & History and Coordinator of African American Studies at Curry College in Massachusetts.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Indiana State University, USA

    Amanda Hobson

  • Curry College, Massachusetts, USA

    U. Melissa Anyiwo

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gender in the Vampire Narrative

  • Editors: Amanda Hobson, U. Melissa Anyiwo

  • Series Title: Teaching Gender

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-714-6

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-714-6Published: 26 September 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 196

  • Topics: Education, general

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