She-wolf : a cultural history of female werewolves /
'She-Wolf' explores the cultural history of the female werewolf, from her first appearance in medieval literature to recent incarnations in film, television and popular literature.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Manchester Gothic (Manchester, England)
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.21996285 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: a history of female werewolves
- Hannah Priest<BR>2. Estonian werewolf legends collected from the island of Saaremaa
- Merili Metsvahi <BR>3. 'She transformed into a werewolf, devouring and killing two children': trials of she-werewolves in early modern French Burgundy
- Rolf Schulte<BR>4. Participatory lycanthropy: female werewolves in Werewolf: The Apocalypse
- Jay Cate<BR>5. Fur girls and wolf women: fur, hair and subversive female lycanthropy
- Jazmina Cininas<BR>6. Female werewolf as monstrous other in Honoré Beaugrand's 'The Werewolves' Shannon Scott<BR>7. 'The complex and antagonistic forces that constitute one soul': conflict between societal expectations and individual desires in Clemence Housman's 'The Werewolf' and Rosamund Marriott Watson's 'A Ballad of the Were-wolf'
- Carys Crossen<BR>8. I was a teenage she-wolf: boobs, blood and sacrifice
- Hannah Priest<BR>9. The case of the cut off hand: Angela Carter's werewolves in historical perspective
- Willem de Blécourt<BR>10. The she-wolves of horror cinema
- Peter Hutchings<BR>11. Ginger Snaps: the monstrous feminine as femme animale
- Barbara Creed<BR>12. Dans Ma Peau: shape-shifting and subjectivity
- Laura Wilson<BR>Bibliography<BR>Index.