Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death

Rebecca Gibson is adjunct professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Indiana University South Bend and the department of anthropology at American University. James M. VanderVeen is an archaeologist and professor of anthropology at Indiana University South Bend.

• Table of ContentsPrefaceRebecca GibsonSection One: IntroductionChapter 1: Transformation and Liminal Space within Fiction and FolkloreFreya FentonSection Two: Social Death/Cyborg TransformationChapter 2: Vengeful Monsters, Shapeshifting Cyborgs, and Alien Spider Queens: The Monstrous-Feminine in Netflix’s Love, Death & RobotsSarah StangChapter 3: “We’re All, In the End, Part of the Same Great Thing”: Gender, Death, and Memory in Aliette de Bodard’s The Tea Master and the DetectiveAlex ClamanChapter 4: “The House Wants Me to Stay”: Mothers, Wives and Sex Objects in the Haunted House SubgenreVictor Hernández-SantaolallaSection Three: Between Life and DeathChapter 5: To Slay or Not to Slay: Gender, Liminality, and Choice in Buffy the Vampire SlayerChelsi SlottenChapter 6: Fear Itself: The Vampire as Moral PanicHolly WaltersChapter 7: Gay Bloodsucker or Post-Soviet Buzzkill? Vampiric Possibilities in Sektor GazaLev NikulinChapter 8: From Femme Fatale to Fat

This collection edited by Gibson and VanderVeen has a highly specialized appeal. The book is composed of 13 chapters, each written by an accomplished academic from the social sciences, media studies, or dramatic arts, and each possessing keen interest in supernatural studies. Recommended.