Werewolves and Other Shapeshifters in Popular Culture

Kimberley McMahon-Coleman has a PhD in literature from the University of Wollongong and is an associate professor (academic development) at Charles Sturt University in Australia. Her research interests include the Gothic, Indigenous literature, popular culture, and academic language and learning. Roslyn Weaver has a PhD in literature from the University of Wollongong and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in medical humanities at Western Sydney University. Her research interests include apocalypse, popular culture, children’s literature, and speculative fiction.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Foreword: Shapeshifters Know No Bounds (Gerry Turcotte)      Preface      Introduction      1. Dear Diary, I Become a Monster Once a Month: Shapeshifting and Adolescence      2. Wolf Boys and Wolf Girls: Shapeshifting and Gender Politics      3. Till Death Do Us Part and Beyond: Shapeshifting, Desire and Sexuality      4. The Alpha Race: Racial and Social Politics of Shapeshifting      5. Shapeshifting and the Body: Disability, Illness and Mental Health      6. Coping, Masking and Addiction: A Little Drinking Problem      7. What to Do with Eternity? Shapeshifting and Spirituality      Conclusion      Works Cited      Index

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