Gender Warriors

Gender Warriors: Reading Contemporary Urban Fantasy offers classroom-ready original essays demonstrating how representations of gender and the kick-ass female urban fantasy warrior have unraveled and reinforced gender and genre expectations and tropes, making it a valuable text for any course.

“The foundational text that gave me life-changing context, helping me to understand who I was and who came before me.”—Tourmaline, activist and filmmaker Transgender Warriors is an essential read for trans people of all ages who want to learn about the towering figures who have come before them—and for everyone who is part of the fight for trans liberation This groundbreaking book—far ahead of its time when first published in 1996 and still galvanizing today—interweaves history, memoir, and gender studies to show that transgender people, far from being a modern phenomenon, have always existed and have exerted their influence throughout history. Leslie Feinberg—hirself a lifelong transgender revolutionary—reveals the origin of the check-one-box-only gender system and shows how zie found empowerment in the lives of transgender warriors around the world, from the Two Spirits of the Americas to the many genders of India, from the trans shamans of East Asia to the gender-bending Queen Nzinga of Angola, from Joan of Arc to Marsha P. Johnson and beyond. This book was published with two different covers. Customers will be shipped the book with one of the available covers.

Introduction: what is urban fantasy? / Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo -- Creating the urban fantasy heroine: gender displacement in Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series / Candace Benefiel -- Empowering or fetishizing: Wonder Woman takes the Bechdel test / Sarah A. Smith -- The vampiric nature of transmedia storytelling in the Buffyverse / Jenna Guitar -- Bewitching bodies: sex, violence, and magic in urban fantasy / Amanda Jo Hobson -- Fighting and feminist expression: the Argent family and the limits of female agency in Teen Wolf / Lauren Rocha -- Tough women, patriarchal violence, and the problem of non-intersectional feminism in Les Wiseman's Underworld series / Ana G. Gal -- The problematic fan-girl: Cassandra Clare's gendered revisions in the Mortal Instruments series / Cait Coker -- A monstrous narrative: unraveling gender and ethnic archetypes in Showtime's Penny Dreadful / U. Melissa Anyiwo -- The urban fantasy classroom / U. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson -- The urban fantasy universe: or what to read or watch next / U. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson.

Introduction: what is urban fantasy? / Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo -- Creating the urban fantasy heroine: gender displacement in Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series / Candace Benefiel -- Empowering or fetishizing: Wonder Woman takes the Bechdel test / Sarah A. Smith -- The vampiric nature of transmedia storytelling in the Buffyverse / Jenna Guitar -- Bewitching bodies: sex, violence, and magic in urban fantasy / Amanda Jo Hobson -- Fighting and feminist expression: the Argent family and the limits of female agency in Teen Wolf / Lauren Rocha -- Tough women, patriarchal violence, and the problem of non-intersectional feminism in Les Wiseman's Underworld series / Ana G. Gal -- The problematic fan-girl: Cassandra Clare's gendered revisions in the Mortal Instruments series / Cait Coker -- A monstrous narrative: unraveling gender and ethnic archetypes in Showtime's Penny Dreadful / U. Melissa Anyiwo -- The urban fantasy classroom / U. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson -- The urban fantasy universe: or what to read or watch next / U. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson.

“The foundational text that gave me life-changing context, helping me to understand who I was and who came before me.”—Tourmaline, activist and filmmaker Transgender Warriors is an essential read for trans people of all ages who want to learn about the towering figures who have come before them—and for everyone who is part of the fight for trans liberation This groundbreaking book—far ahead of its time when first published in 1996 and still galvanizing today—interweaves history, memoir, and gender studies to show that transgender people, far from being a modern phenomenon, have always existed and have exerted their influence throughout history. Leslie Feinberg—hirself a lifelong transgender revolutionary—reveals the origin of the check-one-box-only gender system and shows how zie found empowerment in the lives of transgender warriors around the world, from the Two Spirits of the Americas to the many genders of India, from the trans shamans of East Asia to the gender-bending Queen Nzinga of Angola, from Joan of Arc to Marsha P. Johnson and beyond. This book was published with two different covers. Customers will be shipped the book with one of the available covers.

Are All Warriors Male? is a lively inquiry into questions of gender on the ancient Eurasian steppes. The book's contributors are archaeologists who work in eastern Europe, Central Asia, and eastern Asia, and this volume is the result of their field research in this vast. As little has been written about the evidence of gender roles in ancient—or modern—pastoralist societies, this book helps to fill an empty niche in our understanding of how sexual roles and identities have shaped and been shaped by such social and cultural circumstances. Are All Warriors Male? is a groundbreaking work that challenges current conceptions about the development of human societies in this great cauldron of humanity.

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. This volume presents women warriors and hero cults from a number of cultures since the early modern period. The first truly global study of women warriors, individual chapters examine figures such as Joan of Arc in Cairo, revenging daughters in Samurai Japan, a transgender Mexican revolutionary and WWII Chinese spies. Exploring issues of violence, gender fluidity, memory and nation-building, the authors discuss how these real or imagined female figures were constructed and deployed in different national and transnational contexts. Divided into four parts, they explore how women warriors and their stories were created, consider the issue of the violent woman, discuss how these female figures were gendered, and highlight the fate of women warriors who live on. The chapters illustrate the ways in which female fighters have figured in nation-building stories and in the ordering or re-ordering of gender politics, and give the history of women fighters a critical edge. Exploring women as military actors, women after war, and the strategic use of women's stories in national narratives, this intellectually innovative volume provides the first global treatment of women warriors and their histories.

Who are the grassroots warriors on the front lines of the war on poverty? Through in-depth interviews, Nancy Naples presents the voices of over sixty women--African American, Puerto Rican and white European American--who have fought for social and economic justice in the low-income neighborhoods of New York City and Philadelphia. These women, as community workers and activist mothers, contribute vital and often unpaid services to ther communities, offering complex political perspectives and empowering others. Naples reconceptualizes labor, mothering and politics from the standpoint of women committed to work and politically organize on behalf of low income urban communities. Her analysis reveals significant legacies from past social movements, and examines how gender, ethnicity and class influence political consciousness and practice.