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Outlander's Sassenachs : essays on gender, race, orientation and the other in the novels and television series / edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel.

Title
  1. Outlander's Sassenachs : essays on gender, race, orientation and the other in the novels and television series / edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel.
Published by
  1. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland Publishing, 2016.

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Additional authors
  1. Frankel, Valerie Estelle
Description
  1. vi, 164 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. "Both show and books address many issues most series shy away from--breast feeding, abortion, birth control. As the heroes encounter all the complications of a marriage, along with life in their wider community, they make discoveries about gender that resonate with all their fans here in the modern world.]"--
Subject
  1. Gabaldon, Diana
  2. Gabaldon, Diana > Criticism and interpretation
  3. Outlander novels (Gabaldon, Diana)
  4. Sex role in literature
  5. Sex role on television
  6. Race in literature
  7. Race on television
  8. Identity (Psychology) in literature
  9. Identity (Psychology) on television
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
  1. Part I: Questions of Diversity -- Privilege and Pity: Jamie on Slavery, Racism and Disability / Valerie Estelle Frankel -- Culloden and Wounded Knee: Genocide, Identity and Cultural Survival / Sandi Solis -- Claire Kens Well: Appropriation and Itenerant Performance in Outlander Onscreen / Elizabeth Elaine Tavares -- Part II: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity -- Gazing at Jamie Fraser / Araceli R. Lopez -- Jamie's "Others": Complicating Masculinity and Heroism Through His Foils / Jennifer Phillips -- Being Lord John: Homosexual Life in Georgian London / Valerie Estelle Frankel -- Part III: Women's Choice for Time Travelers -- Men, Women and Birth Control in the Early Outlander Books / Nicole M. DuPlessis -- The Beaton: Healing as Empowerment for Claire Beauchamp / Sarah Stegall -- Part IV: Claire as Feminist, Postfeminist, Anti-Feminist -- Reviewing Linear Time: History Repeating All Over Again (Now, Against You) / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Leonardo G.A. Lando -- The Way We Were: Nostalgia, Romance and Anti-Feminism / Victoria Kennedy -- Outlander from Book to Screen: Power in Gender and Orientation / Yvonne D. Leach.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Contains bibliographic records and index.
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