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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: a history of female werewolves - Hannah Priest
2. Estonian werewolf legends collected from the island of Saaremaa - Merili Metsvahi
3. 'She transformed into a werewolf, devouring and killing two children': trials of she-werewolves in early modern French Burgundy - Rolf Schulte
4. Participatory lycanthropy: female werewolves in Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Jay Cate
5. Fur girls and wolf women: fur, hair and subversive female lycanthropy - Jazmina Cininas
6. Female werewolf as monstrous other in Honoré Beaugrand's 'The Werewolves' Shannon Scott
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
8. I was a teenage she-wolf: boobs, blood and sacrifice - Hannah Priest
9. The case of the cut off hand: Angela Carter's werewolves in historical perspective - Willem de Blécourt
10. The she-wolves of horror cinema - Peter Hutchings
11. Ginger Snaps: the monstrous feminine as femme animale - Barbara Creed
12. Dans Ma Peau: shape-shifting and subjectivity - Laura Wilson
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