Valerie Estelle Frankel teaches English at Mission College and San Jose City College. The author of more than 90 popular culture books and more than 100 stories and essays, she lives in Sunnyvale, California.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Questions of DiversityPrivilege and Pity: Jamie on Slavery, Racism and Disability (Valerie Estelle Frankel)Culloden and Wounded Knee: Genocide, Identity and Cultural Survival(Sandi Solis)Claire Kens Well: Appropriation and Itinerant Performance in Outlander Onscreen (Elizabeth Elaine Tavares)Part II: ­Eighteenth-Century MasculinityGazing at Jamie Fraser (Araceli R. Lopez)Jamie’s “Others”: Complicating Masculinity and Heroism Through His Foils (Jennifer Phillips)Being Lord John: Homosexual Life in Georgian London (Valerie Estelle Frankel)Part III: Women’s Choice for Time TravelersMen, Women and Birth Control in the Early Outlander Books (Nicole M. duPlessis)The Beaton: Healing as Empowerment for Claire Beauchamp (Sarah Stegall)Part IV: Claire as Feminist, Postfeminist, ­Anti-FeministReviewing Linear Time: History Repeating All Over Again (Now, Against You) (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Leonardo G.A. Lando)The Way We Were: Nostalgia, Romance and ­Anti-Feminism (Victoria Kennedy)Outlander from Book to Screen: Power in Gender and Orientation (Yvonne D. Leach)Appendix A: Book Reading OrderAppendix B: Television Episode GuideAppendix C: Television CastAbout the ContributorsIndex

Valerie Estelle Frankel teaches English at Mission College and San Jose City College. The author of more than 90 popular culture books and more than 100 stories and essays, she lives in Sunnyvale, California.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Questions of DiversityPrivilege and Pity: Jamie on Slavery, Racism and Disability (Valerie Estelle Frankel)Culloden and Wounded Knee: Genocide, Identity and Cultural Survival(Sandi Solis)Claire Kens Well: Appropriation and Itinerant Performance in Outlander Onscreen (Elizabeth Elaine Tavares)Part II: ­Eighteenth-Century MasculinityGazing at Jamie Fraser (Araceli R. Lopez)Jamie’s “Others”: Complicating Masculinity and Heroism Through His Foils (Jennifer Phillips)Being Lord John: Homosexual Life in Georgian London (Valerie Estelle Frankel)Part III: Women’s Choice for Time TravelersMen, Women and Birth Control in the Early Outlander Books (Nicole M. duPlessis)The Beaton: Healing as Empowerment for Claire Beauchamp (Sarah Stegall)Part IV: Claire as Feminist, Postfeminist, ­Anti-FeministReviewing Linear Time: History Repeating All Over Again (Now, Against You) (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Leonardo G.A. Lando)The Way We Were: Nostalgia, Romance and ­Anti-Feminism (Victoria Kennedy)Outlander from Book to Screen: Power in Gender and Orientation (Yvonne D. Leach)Appendix A: Book Reading OrderAppendix B: Television Episode GuideAppendix C: Television CastAbout the ContributorsIndex

Valerie Estelle Frankel teaches English at Mission College and San Jose City College. The author of more than 90 popular culture books and more than 100 stories and essays, she lives in Sunnyvale, California.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Questions of DiversityPrivilege and Pity: Jamie on Slavery, Racism and Disability (Valerie Estelle Frankel)Culloden and Wounded Knee: Genocide, Identity and Cultural Survival(Sandi Solis)Claire Kens Well: Appropriation and Itinerant Performance in Outlander Onscreen (Elizabeth Elaine Tavares)Part II: ­Eighteenth-Century MasculinityGazing at Jamie Fraser (Araceli R. Lopez)Jamie’s “Others”: Complicating Masculinity and Heroism Through His Foils (Jennifer Phillips)Being Lord John: Homosexual Life in Georgian London (Valerie Estelle Frankel)Part III: Women’s Choice for Time TravelersMen, Women and Birth Control in the Early Outlander Books (Nicole M. duPlessis)The Beaton: Healing as Empowerment for Claire Beauchamp (Sarah Stegall)Part IV: Claire as Feminist, Postfeminist, ­Anti-FeministReviewing Linear Time: History Repeating All Over Again (Now, Against You) (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Leonardo G.A. Lando)The Way We Were: Nostalgia, Romance and ­Anti-Feminism (Victoria Kennedy)Outlander from Book to Screen: Power in Gender and Orientation (Yvonne D. Leach)Appendix A: Book Reading OrderAppendix B: Television Episode GuideAppendix C: Television CastAbout the ContributorsIndex