TY - BOOK AU - Hobson,Amanda AU - Anyiwo,U.Melissa TI - Gender in the Vampire Narrative T2 - Teaching Gender Series SN - 9789463007146 AV - L1-991 PY - 2016/// CY - Rotterdam PB - BRILL KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Gender in the Vampire Narrative -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dark Seductress: The Hypersexualization of the Female Vampire -- 3. Hybrid Heroines and the Naturalization of Women's Violence in Urban Fantasy Fiction -- 4. Men That Suck: Gender Anxieties and the Evolution of Vampire Men -- 5. "There Will Never Be More Than Two of Us": The Twilight Saga's Monstrous Mothers -- 6. Sex, Blood, and Death: Vampires and Child-Rearing -- 7. Beautifully Broken: True Blood's Tara Thornton as the Black Best Friend -- 8. A Feminist Bloodletting: Reading Suicide in Florence Marryat and Angela Carter -- 9. Vampiras and Vampiresas: Latinas in the Graphic Novels Bite Club and Life Sucks -- 10. "You Were Such a Good Girl When You Were Human": Gender and Subversion in The Vampire Diaries -- 11. Performative Femininity and Female Invalidism in John Keats's "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and S.T. Coleridge's Christabel -- 12. The Female Vampire in Popular Culture: Or What to Read or Watch Next -- About The Contributors N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4737016 ER -