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Title Gender and sexuality in contemporary popular fantasy : beyond boy wizards and kick-ass chicks / edited by Jude Roberts and Esther MacCallum-Stewart
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 185 pages)
Series The cultural politics of media and popular culture
Cultural politics of media and popular culture.
Contents Introduction -- Hiding in plain sight: the invisibility of queer fantasy -- Queering magic: Robin Hobb and fantasy literature's radical potential -- 'It takes a pack to raise a child': anti-conservatism and non-normative families in Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate -- Strange boys, queer boys: gay representations in young adult fantastic fiction -- Even better than the real thing: fantasy and phantasy in Boys' Love manga -- Turning people into things: object relations and posthuman reproduction in weird short fiction -- 'Everything's interconnected': anarchy, ecology and sexuality in lost girls and swamp thing -- Playing past the 'straight male gamer': from modding Edwin(a) to bisexual Zevran in BioWare games -- Playing with gender: (re- )imagining women and men in fantasy board games -- Supernatural hymens and bodies from hell: screening virginity through the gothic body -- The tale of the women: female gender, gender roles, and sexuality in Emma Donoghue's Kissing the Witch -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 22, 2016)
Subject Fantasy in mass media.
Sex role in mass media.
Sex in mass media.
Fantasy fiction.
ART -- Performance.
ART -- Reference.
Fantasy fiction
Fantasy in mass media
Sex in mass media
Sex role in mass media
Form Electronic book
Author Roberts, Jude, editor
MacCallum-Stewart, Esther, editor
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