Feminism in the Worlds of Neil Gaiman

Tara Prescott is a lecturer in Writing Programs at the University of California, Los Angeles. She lives in Los Angeles. Aaron Drucker is an instructor in Los Angeles.

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• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Preface      IntroductionAARON DRUCKER and TARA PRESCOTT      A Note on Citation      Speaking the Cacophony of Angels: Gaiman’s Women and the Fracturing of Phallocentric DiscourseRACHEL R. MARTIN      The Power of the Perky: The Feminist Rhetoric of DeathLANETTE CADLE      Agency Through Fragmentation? The Problem of Delirium in The SandmanJUSTIN MELLETTE      It’s Pretty Graphic: Sexual Violence and the Issue of “Calliope”TARA PRESCOTT      Empowering Voice and Refiguring Retribution: Neil Gaiman’s Anti-Feminism Feminist Parable in The SandmanAARON DRUCKER      Feminist Subjectivity in Neil Gaiman’s Black OrchidSARAH CANTRELL      When Superheroes Awaken: The Revisionist Trope in Neil Gaiman’s Marvel 1602RENATA DALMASO      Outfoxed: Feminine Folklore and Agency in The Dream HuntersCORALLINE DUPUY      “A boy and his box, off to see the universe”: Madness, Power and Sex in “The Doctor’s Wife”EMILY CAPETTINI      Unmasking M(other)hood: Third-Wave Mothering in Gaiman’s Coraline and MirrorMaskDANIELLE RUSSELL      The Fairest of All: Snow White and Gendered Power in “Snow, Glass, Apples”ELIZABETH LAW      Inverting the Fairy Tale: The Value of the Complex Female in “Chivalry”JENNIFER MCSTOTTS      Feminist Fairy Tales in Who Killed Amanda PalmerMONICA MILLER      Liminality and Empowerment: The Aged Woman in Neil Gaiman’s “Queen of Knives” and “Chivalry”AGATA ZARZYCKA      “Anathema liked to read about herself ”: Preserving the Female Line in Good OmensJESSICA WALKER      Doors, Vortices and the In-Between: Quantum Cosmological Goddesses in the Gaiman MultiverseKRISTINE LARSEN      About the Contributors      Index