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Monstrous Bodies - Feminine Power in Young Adult Horror Fiction (Paperback)
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Monstrous Bodies - Feminine Power in Young Adult Horror Fiction (Paperback)
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Recent works of young adult fantastic fiction such as Stephenie
Meyer's Twilight Saga have been excoriated for glamorizing feminine
subordination. However, young adult horror fiction with female
protagonists who have paranormal abilities suggests to female
readers the possibility of resisting restrictive gender roles that
are presented to them as natural and therefore immutable. In this
type of fiction, the ""monstrous Other"" is a double with a
difference, a metaphor of the adolescent girl in Western culture
who is pressured to embody a doll-like feminine ideal which is
untenable because it deprives them of agency. This book examines
three types of female monstrous Others in young adult fiction - the
haunted girl, the female werewolf and the witch - 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.
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