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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Levine, Elana
• Parks, Lisa
• Kearney, Mary Celeste
• Murray, Susan
• ELANA LEVINE
• LISA PARKS

Titel

BUFFY AND THE “NEW GIRL ORDER”: DEFINING FEMINISM AND FEMININITY

Ist Teil von

• Undead TV, 2007, p.168

Ort / Verlag

United States: Duke University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Joss Whedon, the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has never hesitated to label his series a feminist show.¹ Journalists have often cited the program as a prototypical example of the “girl power” feminism of the 1990s.² Academics have eagerly dissected the feminist significance of the series.³ Activists have called upon Buffy as a symbol of the contemporary feminist movement.⁴ Yet the equation of Buffy and feminism has never been unanimous, nor has it been univocal in its understandings of feminism or of the show’s relationship to it. Sarah Michelle Gellar has rejected the feminist label; “I hate the word,”