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Original Title:	Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan
ISBN:	0819567582 (ISBN13: 9780819567581)
Edition Language:	English

Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan

Lorna Jowett

Paperback | Pages: 241 pages

Rating: 4.06 | 312 Users | 20 Reviews

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Title	:	Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan
Author	:	Lorna Jowett
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 241 pages
Published	:	April 15th 2005 by Wesleyan University Press
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Media Tie In. Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Culture. Pop Culture. Feminism. Paranormal. Vampires. Gender. Gender Studies. Tv

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During its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer attracted a wide range of viewers and almost unprecedented academic interest. Sex and the Slayer explores one of the most talked-about topics in relation to this pioneering TV series--gender. As fantasy, Buffy potentially opens up a space for alternative representations of gender. But how alternative can popular television be?
Taking a feminist cultural studies approach, Jowett explores the ways in which the series represents femininity, masculinity, and gendered relations, including sexuality and sexual orientation. Written for undergraduates, Sex and the Slayer provides an introduction to the most important theoretical and historical underpinnings of contemporary gender criticism as it examines a range of thought-provoking issues: role reversal, the tension between feminism and femininity, the "crisis" of masculinity, gender hybridity, the appeal of bad girls, romance, and changing family structures. Through this introductory analysis, Jowett shows that Buffy presents a contradictory mixture of "subversive" and "conservative" images of gender roles and as such is a key example of the complexity of gender representation in contemporary television.

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Ratings: 4.06 From 312 Users | 20 Reviews

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A couple of the chapters stood out to me as particularly thoughtful and well-done, including Dead Boys, which looks at the liminal and complex nature of Angel and Spike. But overall, the book was weighed down by the approach. While the book is broken down categorically--Good Girls, Bad Girls, New Men, etc.-- Jowett's tendency to further break down every section character by character (even very minor, one episode characters) becomes a tiresome list rather than an overall analysis. I wish this

You've just got to love Buffy through a gender studies lense!

Forgettable. Truly -- until I skimmed a copy to refresh my memory, the only thing I could remember about this book at all was the library's copy was laminated. Nothing standout and some of the ideas felt dated even when I first read them. You can find better stuff online, even from the same time period.

This book was incredibly insightful and a great read. I wish I had gotten the chance to read this in my 'pop culture and sociology' class back in college.

One of my favorite Buffy books. I had to re-read a few sections because of the rote academia and gender studies lingo, but very insightful.



I definitely disagree with some of the author's assertions on gender relating directly to the show and characters, but this is still a well thought-out text.