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Imagining the worst : Stephen King and the representation of women
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Imagining the worst : Stephen King and the representation of women

Author: Kathleen Margaret Lant; Theresa Thompson
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.
Series: Contributions to the study of popular culture, no. 67
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Stephen King; Stephen King
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kathleen Margaret Lant; Theresa Thompson
ISBN: 0313302324 9780313302329
OCLC Number: 37981689
Description: viii, 203 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Imagining the worst: Stephen King and the representation of women / Kathleen Margaret Lant and Theresa Thompson -- Cotton Mather and Stephen King: writing/righting the body politic / Edward J. Ingebretsen -- Patriarchal mediations of Carrie: the book, the movie, and the musical / Douglas Keesey -- Rituals of male violence: unlocking the (fe)male self in Gerald's game and Dolores Claiborne / Theresa Thompson -- Repulsive attractions: "The raft," the Vagina Dentata, and the slasher formula / Leonard Cassuto -- The power of the feminine and the gendered construction of horror in Stephen King's "The reach" / André L. DeCuir -- Gerald's Game and Dolores Claiborne: Stephen King and the evolution of an authentic female narrative voice / Carol A. Senf -- "Oh dear Jesus it is female": monster as mother/mother as monster in Stephen King's It / Linda Anderson -- It, a sexual fantasy / Karen Thoens -- Cars are girls: sexual power and sexual panic in Stephen King's Christine / Edward Madden -- The rape of constant reader: Stephen King's construction of the female reader and violation of the female body in Misery / Kathleen Margaret Lant.
Series Title: Contributions to the study of popular culture, no. 67
Responsibility: edited by Kathleen Margaret Lant and Theresa Thompson.

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