Postfeminist Gothic

1. Introduction:Postfeminist Gothic
Benjamin A. Brabon, Stéphanie Genz

2. Dark Departures: Contemporary Women’s Writing after the Gothic
Lucie Armitt

3. Neo-Splatter: Bride of Chucky and the Horror of Heteronormativity
Judith Halberstam

4. Bite-Size Pieces: Disassembling the Gothic Villain in Witchblade
Rhonda V. Wilcox

5. The Spectral Phallus: Re-Membering the Postfeminist Man
Benjamin A. Brabon

6. (Re)Making the Body Beautiful: Postfeminist Cinderellas and Gothic Tales of Transformation
Stéphanie Genz

7. The Stepford Wives: What’s a Living Doll to Do in a Postfeminist World?
Anne Williams

8. The Postfeminist Filmic Female Gothic Detective: Reading the Bodily Text in Candyman
Diane Long Hoeveler

9. Moving beyond Waste to Celebration: The Postcolonial/ Postfeminist Gothic of Nalo Hopkinson’s “A Habit of Waste”
Gina Wisker

10. George Elliott Clarke’s Beatrice Chancy: Sublimity, Pain, Possibility
Donna Heiland

11. Sensibility Gone Mad: Or, Drusilla, Buffy and the (D)evolution of the Heroine of Sensibility
Claire Knowles

12. She: Gothic Reverberations in Star Trek: First Contact
Linda Dryden

13. Flight of the Heroine
Fred Botting

Keywords: Literature, Literary History, Twentieth-Century Literature, Gender Studies