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Agee, Richard S. 'Hot chicks with superpowers': Feminist Empowerment in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Masters thesis, Central Michigan University, Mt Pleasant, MI, 2013. Available online.

 

Alexander, Amanda. "Sex, Crime and the 'Liberated Woman' in The Virgin Bride and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Australian Feminist Law Journal 18 (2003): 77-92.

 

Bodger, Gwyneth. "Buffy the Feminist Slayer? Constructions of Femininity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Eds. Angela Ndalianis and Felicity Colman. Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 2 (2003). Available online.

 

Brace, Patricia. "Fashioning Feminism: Whedon, Women, and Wardrobe." The Philosophy of Joss Whedon. Eds. Dean A. Kowalski and S. Evan Kreider. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. 117-32.

 

Burnett, Tamy L. "Anya as Feminist Model of Positive Female Sexuality." Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays. Ed. Erin B. Waggoner. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 117-145.

 

Campbell, Chloé. "The Chosen Ones: Feminism and Gender Studies in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Watercooler Journal, April 2014. Available online.

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Cocca, Carolyn. "First Word 'Jail,' Second Word 'Bait': Adolescent Sexuality, Feminist Theories, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 3.2 (10), November 2003. Available online.

 

​Comeford, AmiJo. "Cordelia Chase as Failed Feminist Gesture." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts, edited by Kevin K. Durand, McFarland, 2009, pp. 150-160.

 

Coulombe, Renée T. "'You're just a girl!': Punk Rock Feminism and the New Hero in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, edited by Paul Attinello, Janet K. Halfyard, and Vanessa Knights. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. 149-163.

 

Craigo-Snell, Shannon. "What Would Buffy do?: Feminist Ethics and Epistemic Violence." Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media48 (2006).

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Grzanka, Patrick R. "Buffy the Black Feminist?: Intersectionality and Pedagogy." Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching With the Vampire Slayer. Eds. Jodie A. Kreider and Meghan K. Winchell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 186-201.

 

Heinecken, Dawn M. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Body in Relation." The Warrior Women of Television: A Feminist Cultural Analysis of the New Female Body in Popular Media. New York: Peter Lang, 2003.

 

Hibbs, Thomas. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Feminist Noir." Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 49-60.

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Levine, Elana. "Buffy and the 'New Girl Order': Defining Feminism and Femininity." Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, edited by Elana Levine and Lisa Parks, Duke University Press, 2007, pp. 168-189. 

 

Miller, Jessica Prata. "'The I in Team': Buffy and Feminist Ethics." Buffy and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Ed. James B. South. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. 35-48.

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Nicol, Rhonda. "'When you kiss me, I want to die': Arrested Feminism in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Twilight Series." Bringing Light to Twilight: Perspectives on a Pop Culture Phenomenon, edtied by Giselle Liza Anatol, Macmillan, 2011, pp. 113-24.

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Owen, A. Susan. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Vampires, Postmodernity, and Postfeminism." Journal of Popular Film & Television, vol. 27, no. 2, 1999, pp. 24-31.

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Payne-Mulliken, Susan Marie and Valerie Renegar. "Buffy Never Goes It Alone: The Rhetorical Construction of Sisterhood in the Final Season." Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts, edited by Kevin K. Durand, McFarland, 2009, pp. 57-77. 
 
Peeling, Caitlin and Meaghan Scanlon. "'What's More Real? a Sick Girl in an Institution... or Some Kind of Supergirl?': The Question of Madness in 'Normal Again,' a Feminist Reading." Paper presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004.

 

Pender, Patricia. "Buffy in History: Feminisms Pro and Faux, Post and Most." I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism, I. B. Tauris, 2016, pp. 21-43.

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Rose, Jared S. "'You Know, I'm Extremely Youthful. And Peppy!': Buffy, Playing Girl, and Popular Culture Representation of Sex-Worker Feminism." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies, vol. 5, no. 1 (6),  July 2011.

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feminist & gender criticism

"Whilst we see here that Whedon’s intention is to subvert the conventional horror movie/slasher genre, I’m not sure that he is successful. He is running the considerable risk of merely replacing the fetishised female victim with a fetishised female hero; she is still a pretty blond girl, she is still fun, she is still sexual, she is still "Barbie with a kung fu grip"."

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--Gwyneth Bodger, Buffy the Feminist Slayer? Constructions of Femininity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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