Postfeminist gothic : critical interventions in contemporary culture /
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Basingstoke [England] ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: postfeminist gothic / Benjamin A. Brabon and Stéphanie Genz
- Dark departures: contemporary women's writing after the gothic / Lucie Armitt
- Neo-splatter: Bride of Chucky and the horror of heteronormativity / Judith Halberstam
- Bite-size pieces: disassembling the gothic villain in Witchblade / Rhonda V. Wilcox
- The spectral phallus: re-membering the postfeminist man / Benjamin A. Brabon
- (Re)making the body beautiful: postfeminist cinderellas and gothic tales of transformation / Stéphanie Genz
- The Stepford wives: what's a living doll to do in a postfeminist world? / Anne Williams
- The postfeminist filmic female gothic detective: reading the bodily text in Candyman / Diane Long Hoeveler
- Moving beyond waste to celebration: the postcolonial/postfeminist gothic of Nalo Hopkinson's "A habit of waste" / Gina Wisker
- George Elliott Clarke's Beatrice Chancy: sublimity, pain, possibility / Donna Heiland
- Sensibility gone mad: or, Drusilla, Buffy and the (D)evolution of the heroine of sensibility / Claire Knowles
- She: gothic reverberations in Star Trek: first contact / Linda Dryden
- Flight of the heroine / Fred Botting.