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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
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,”