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Hannah Priest - She-wolf: A cultural history of female werewolves - 9781526116895 - V9781526116895
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She-wolf: A cultural history of female werewolves

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Description for She-wolf: A cultural history of female werewolves Paperback. .
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 book covers material from the Middle Ages to the present day with chapters on folklore, history, witch trials, Victorian literature, young adult literature, film and gaming. 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 complex cultural anxieties, as well as a site of continued fascination. -- .

Product Details

Publisher
Manchester University Press Manchester
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781526116895
SKU
V9781526116895
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About Hannah Priest
Hannah Priest is an Honorary Research Fellow at Swansea University -- .

Reviews for She-wolf: A cultural history of female werewolves
'The chapters address many of the standards in werewolf literature but, ultimately, they strive to challenge this canon, arguing both that werewolf literature is not restrictively a masculine archetype and that feminist studies of the wild woman should not simply sweep she-werewolves under the monstrous feminine rug. But by the end even with these complications - and contradictions - they merge at last, readers will find, into a multifaceted beast who stares readers in the eye and grins wickedly, hungrily. For, after all, like the adolescent protagonist giggling in the burly wolf's arms in Angela Carter's The Company of Wolves , [we are] nobody's meat .' Jonathan W. Thurston, Michigan State University, Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research 'Overall, the collection delivers on its promise to take ... a specific and localised approach, revealing historical, literary, cinematic and folkloric contexts for iterations of the female lycanthrope ... In general, the volume, both in its entirety and as individual chapters, will interest cultural historians, English and comparative literature scholars, and film/media and area studies specialists, and could be employed in lower-level and upper-division courses on the topic.' Svitlana Krys, MacEwan University, HNet Online
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