This book explores new critical ground by addressing the intersection of two contentious concepts, postfeminism and Gothic. This collection of original and exciting essays examines a number of Gothic texts, from Anne Radcliffe's romances to modern horror films, in conjunction with diverse postfeminist theories, from backlash to postmodern feminism.

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Introduction: Postfeminist Gothic
1 Dark Departures: Contemporary Women’s Writing after the Gothic
2 Neo-Splatter: Bride of Chucky and the Horror of Heteronormativity
3 Bite-Size Pieces: Disassembling the Gothic Villain in Witchblade
4 The Spectral Phallus: Re-Membering the Postfeminist Man
5 (Re)Making the Body Beautiful: Postfeminist Cinderellas and Gothic Tales of Transformation
6 The Stepford Wives: What’s a Living Doll to Do in a Postfeminist World?
7 The Postfeminist Filmic Female Gothic Detective: Reading the Bodily Text in Candyman
8 Moving beyond Waste to Celebration: The Postcolonial/Postfeminist Gothic of Nalo Hopkinson’s “A Habit of Waste”
9 George Elliott Clarke’s Beatrice Chancy: Sublimity, Pain, Possibility
10 Sensibility Gone Mad: Or, Drusilla, Buffy and the (D)evolution of the Heroine of Sensibility
11 She: Gothic Reverberations in Star Trek: First Contact
12 Flight of the Heroine
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