I’m Buffy and You’re History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism

Cover
Author Bio
Series information
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Epigraph
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction:
1 ‘I’m Buffy and You’re … History’: Buffy Baffles the Binaries
	Just a girl
	The lite ages
2 Buffy in History: Feminisms Pro and Faux, Post and Most
	All about the girl
	Placing Buffy in feminist film and television history
	Buffy at the brink of second-wave and third-wave feminism
	Problems with post-feminism
3 ‘Kicking Ass is Comfort Food’: Buffy as Third-Wave Feminist Icon
	Hot chicks, superpowers, and patriarchal nemesises (sic)
	Challenges for third-wave feminism: the exceptional white woman as exemplar
	Contradiction, paradox and third-wave politics
4 Whose Revolution Has Been Televised?: Race, Whiteness and ‘Transnational’ Slayer Suffrage
	Whose revolution has been televised?
	Buffy and benevolent world domination
5 Becoming Worthy of Buffy: Performing Masculinity in a Patriarchal World
	‘Never Kill a Boy on the First Date’: romancing normality
	‘I am what they made me to be’: Riley, hegemonic masculinity and relapse
	Not all done
6 ‘From Beneath You It Devours’: Andrew and the Homoerotics of Evil
7 ‘Why Can’t You Just Masturbate Like the Rest of Us?’: The Erotics and Politics of Buffy Fandom
	Master vs mushroom: Andrew and the erotics of fandom in ‘Storyteller’
	Metalepsis in the mash-up: Parsing the sexual politics of Buffy vs Edward
8 ‘Where Do We Go From Here?’: Trajectories in Buffy Studies
	‘Once more, with feeling’
	‘Going through the motions?’
	‘The same old trips – why should we care?’
	‘What can’t we face if we’re together?’
	‘Something to sing about’
	‘I’m just worried that this whole session’s going to turn into some training montage from an ’80s movie’
	‘It’s getting eerie. What’s this cheery singing all about?’
	‘I’ve got a theory’
	‘Where do we go from here?’
Notes
	Introduction: How to Do Things with Buffy
	Chapter 1: ‘I’m Buffy and You’re … History’: Buffy Baffles the Binaries
	Chapter 2: Buffy in History: Feminisms Pro and Faux, Post and Most
	Chapter 3: ‘Kicking Ass is Comfort Food’: Buffy as Third-Wave Feminist Icon
	Chapter 4: Whose Revolution Has Been Televised?: Race, Whiteness and ‘Transnational’ Slayer Suffrage
	Chapter 5: Becoming Worthy of Buffy: Performing Masculinity in a Patriarchal World
	Chapter 6: ‘From Beneath You It Devours’: Andrew and the Homoerotics of Evil
	Chapter 7: ‘Why Can’t You Just Masturbate Like the Rest of Us?’: The Erotics and Politics of Buffy Fandom
	Chapter 8: ‘Where Do We Go From Here?’: Trajectories in Buffy Studies
Bibliography
Index