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    Gender, supernatural beings, and the liminality of death : monstrous males/fatal females (2021)
    Lanham : Lexington Books
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    ISBN: 9781793641359
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 217 Seiten
    DDC: 302.23081
    RVK:
    AP 53900
    RVK:
    HG 674
    Keywords: Sex role in mass media ; Mosters in mass media ; Death in mass media ; Liminality in mass media ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: "Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death: Monstrous Males/Fatal Females examines how gender changes and manifests in stories and film through several different types of beings. With sections on social death, the walking dead, and the undead, this is a multifaceted look at myth, legend, and popular culture creatures"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
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    The corseted skeleton : a bioarchaeology of binding (2020)
    Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
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    ISBN: 9783030503925
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 391.42309
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Physical anthropology ; Medical anthropology ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: Shaping the Garment, Shaping the Woman -- "Civilization" and the Corseted "Savage" -- The Corseted Skeletons: FAO90-St. Bride's Lower Churchyard -- Corseting "Myths" and How We Can Bust Them -- Why This Matters -- The Gender Binary: Why I Use "Women" and "Female" -- Ethical Use of Remains in Skeletal Collections -- Bibliography -- 2 The Corset in Our Collective Consciousness: Exotic, Erotic, or Other? -- Fashioning the Narrative: What Cultural Historians Say About the Corset -- Moving Beyond Exotic/Erotic: A Deeper Look at Gender and Its Intersection with Fashion Theory -- Talking About Talking About Things: Critical Discourse Analysis and Its Uses -- The Magazine Genre: On Being Anonymous in the Public Sphere -- Refuting the Exotic/Erotic-A Focus on Health -- Biocultural Analysis or Looking at Behavior to Explain Everyday Choice -- Bibliography -- 3 The Corset as a Garment: Is It a Representative of Who Wore It? -- Who Wore Corsets and Why, an Overview of Corseting -- Variations on a Theme: Practical Corseting and What Women Wore -- Female Purchasing Power: Class and Corseting -- The Corset Collections: Victoria and Albert, Fashion Museum Bath, St. Fagans, and the National Museum of Scotland -- A Brief Word About Museums -- What Corsets Are Represented in the Collections… -- …and What That Representation Tells Us -- Bibliography -- 4 The Corset as Civilization: The Debate on Clothing and Women's Social Wellbeing -- Civilized, Healthy, and in Proper Shape: The Evolution of the Corseted Woman -- The Freudian/Hysterical Narrative on Corseting -- Wandering Womb Syndrome: Corsets and Hysteria -- Change Your Body, Change Your Identity -- Health, Civilization, and Morality-An Upright Woman Is a Moral Woman -- Synthesis: Ideas About Corseting and Morality.
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    Global perspectives on the liminality of the supernatural : from Animus to Zombi (2022)
    Lanham : Lexington Books
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    ISBN: 9781666907414 , 1666907413
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 200 Seiten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Global perspectives on the liminality of the supernatural
    RVK:
    LB 43880
    RVK:
    LC 31000
    Keywords: Popkultur ; Liminalität ; Kulturvergleich ; Das Übernatürliche ; Tod ; Supernatural / Folklore ; Supernatural in literature ; Supernatural in motion pictures ; Folklore in literature ; Folklore in motion pictures ; Folklore in literature ; Folklore in motion pictures ; Supernatural in literature ; Supernatural in motion pictures ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Tod ; Das Übernatürliche ; Liminalität ; Popkultur ; Kulturvergleich
    Abstract: "Global Perspectives on the Liminality of the Supernatural investigates fundamental anthropological questions about humanity, the concept of 'dead,' and how we relate to our own genders when using the supernatural to understand them"--
    Description / Table of Contents: A (wo)man's touch : doomsday book as critique of metropolis / Liz W. Faber -- Gender, death, and the supernatural in the untamed (Chen Qing Ling) : a danmei genre pop cultural phenomenon / Lucy Yuan Qin and Kong F. Cheong -- A real woman is an iceberg, and a real man is made : gender, failure, and death in post-Soviet cinematic space / Lev Nikulin -- The yara-ma-yha-who, "real" vampires, and aboriginal erasure : the retold vampires of Australian horror fiction / McKenzie Lynn Tozan -- When opposites impact : the remarkable duality present in the taíno belief system / James M. VanderVeen -- Dying to live in Octavia Butler's Kindred and Breonna Taylor's America : discourses of policing, misogynoir, "runaways," and zombies / Jamie A. Thomas -- Death and disability in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred and Parable of the sower / Kathryn E. Heffner -- Bodies in pods : masculine domination, sexuality, and love in the Matrix franchise / Brian Brutlag -- Half man, half machine : transhumanism and the cyborg through a fictional lens / Freya Fenton -- "Blood stays inside your arteries, dlique" : aliens, cyborgs, death, and tea ceremonies in Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy / Rebecca Gibson
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