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Monstrosising infertility : supernatural barren females in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer

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Monstrosising infertility : supernatural barren females in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer

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dc.contributor.author Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska, Agnieszka [SAP14000395] pl
dc.contributor.editor Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska, Agnieszka [SAP14000395] pl
dc.contributor.editor Graham, Karen pl
dc.date.accessioned 2015-02-18T14:36:41Z
dc.date.available 2015-02-18T14:36:41Z
dc.date.issued 2013 pl
dc.identifier.uri http://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/3187
dc.language eng pl
dc.title Monstrosising infertility : supernatural barren females in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer pl
dc.type BookSection pl
dc.pubinfo Oxford : Inter-Disciplinary Press pl
dc.description.physical 151-160 pl
dc.description.additional Bibliogr. s. 158-159 pl
dc.abstract.en The representation of an infertile woman as a monster has been long present in the cultural history of the world. The inability to bear children was well established as one of the main characteristics in the construction of the monstrous female already in ancient times and the Middle Ages. Although it is occasionally argued that the figure of the infertile woman has lost its monstrous face in the contemporary culture of the West, it does not seem to be so. This chapter considers the notions of (in)fertility in the famous Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer as determining the construction of monstrous and human femininities. While Barbara Creed places sexuality as the key to understand the monstrous in the feminine, Meyer’s saga takes it one step further, narrowing the sexuality factor to the inability of giving birth to a child. In consequence, infertile females are constructed as abject, monstrous and transgressors as theorised by Barbara Creed, Christine Bousfield, Julia Kristeva and Linda H. McGuire. Fertility and motherhood, on the other hand, are depicted as thoroughly human pl
dc.subject.en monstrous femininity pl
dc.subject.en infertility pl
dc.subject.en female sex pl
dc.subject.en Twilight pl
dc.subject.en female vampires pl
dc.subject.en female shape-shifters. pl
dc.description.series At the Interface. Evil Hub pl
dc.description.publication 0,5 pl
dc.identifier.eisbn 978-1-84888-202-7 pl
dc.title.container Monstrous manifestations : realities and the imaginings of the monster pl
dc.language.container eng pl
dc.affiliation Wydział Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politycznych : Instytut Amerykanistyki i Studiów Polonijnych pl
dc.subtype Article pl
dc.rights.original bez licencji pl


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