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Battis, Jes. "'She's Not All Grown Yet': Willow As Hybrid, Hero and Middle Child of the Scooby Family." Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005. 25-43.  Available online.

 

Driver, Susan. "Willow's Queer Transformations on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Coming of Age, Coming Out, Becoming Powerful." Queer Girls and Popular Culture: Reading, Resisting, and Creating Media. New York: Peter Lang, 2007. 57-90.

 

Ford, Jessica. "Coming Out of the Broom Closet: Willow's Sexuality and Empowerment in Buffy." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition. London: Titan Books, 2015. 94-102. Originally appeared in earlier form in PopMatters.com's Spotlight: Joss Whedon, 9 March 2011, Partially Available Online.

 

Golden, Christie. "Where's the Religion in Willow's Wicca?" Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella, 2003. 159-166.

 

O'Malley, Cynthia Ryan. "Bringing the Power Together: Willow's Four Personalities." Unpublished paper written for undergraduate course, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 2004. Available online at author's website.

 

Pateman, Matthew. "Aesthetics, Culture and Knowledge: 'Everyone Forgets, Willow, That Knowledge is the Ultimate Weapon.'" The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. 15-37.

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___ ""That Was Nifty": Willow Rosenberg Saves the World in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, vol. 25 no. 4, 2007, pp. 64-77. 

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___ "Willow's Dream: 'It's Exactly Like a Greek Tragedy.'" I The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. 126-145.

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Masson, Cynthea.  "'Can You Just Be Kissing Me Now?': The Question(s) of Willow in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Televising Queer Women: A Reader. Ed. Rebecca Beirne. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 65-81. Also published in earlier form as "'Is That Just a Comforting Way of Not Answering the Question?': Willow, Questions, and Affective Respose in Buffy the Vampire Slayer" in Beyond Slayer Slang: Pragmatics, Discourse, and Style in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Michael Adams. Special Issue of Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 5.4 (20), May 2006. Earlier version available online.

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McAvan, Emily. "'I Think I'm Kinda Gay': Willow Rosenberg and the Absent/Present Bisexual in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 6.4 (24), Summer 2007. Available online.

 

Moorman, Jennifer. "'Kinda Gay': Queer Cult Fandom and Willow's (Bi)Sexuality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Supernatural Youth: The Rise of the Teen Hero in Literature and Popular Culture. Ed. Jes Battis. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011. 102-115.

 

Morris, Frances E. "Willow's Electric Arcs: Moral Choices Sparked by Connections." The Truth of Buffy: Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality. Eds. Emily Dial-Driver, Sally Emmons-Featherston, Jim Ford and Carolyn Anne Taylor. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 83-95. 

 

Richardson, J. Michael and J. Douglas Rabb. "Willow and Tara: Love, Witchcraft and Vengeance." The Existential Joss Whedon: Evil and Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007. 90-105.

 

Stratton, Jon. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: What Being Jewish Has to Do with It." Television & New Media, vol. 6, no. 2, May 2005, pp. 176-199.

potential research genres:
feminism, gender studies, LGTBQ STUDIES, JEWISH STUDIES
potential research genres:
feminism, gender studies, LGTBQ STUDIES, JEWISH STUDIES

"Willow's Jewishness, by its seeming lack that tends toward its almost complete disappearance, offers a sense of this forgetting that is rather more literal than that outlined by Lyotard but which, nevertheless, is part of a representational economy that occludes certain ethnicities at the moment of seemingly engaging with them. The concern of Alderman and Seidel-Arpaci that Buffy is "unable to escape the internalised forces of the dominant culture" would appear to have a significant level of validity when that dominant culture is not simply U.S. majority culture but something as vast and historically embedded as western thought."

 

--Matthew Pateman, 

"That Was Nifty":

Willow Rosenberg Saves the World in Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

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