Monstrous bodies : feminine power in young adult horror fiction / June Pulliam.

Author/Creator:

Pulliam, June Michele.

Other Title:

Feminine power in young adult horror fiction

Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]

Format/Description:

Book
198 pages ; 23 cm

Subjects:

Young adult literature -- History and criticism.
Other (Philosophy) in literature.
Women in literature.
Horror in literature.
Young adults -- Books and reading.
Young adult literature.

Form/Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Summary:

"This book examines three types of female monstrous Others in young adult fiction and considers what each has to tell us about feminine subordination in a supposedly post-feminist world, where girls continue to be pressured to silence their voices and stifle their desires in conformity with contemporary ideas about what it means to be a good woman"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Subversive spirits : resistance and the uncanny in the young adult ghost story
Blood and bitches : sexual politics and the female lycanthrope in young adult fiction
"An ye harm none, do as ye will" : magic, gender and agency in young adult narratives of witchcraft
Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-188) and index.

ISBN:

9780786475438 (softcover : acid-free paper)
0786475439 (softcover : acid-free paper)
9781476616636 (ebook)
1476616639 (ebook)

OCLC:

879584264

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