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Stepford Daughters
Tools for Feminists in Contemporary Horror
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This book is ideal for readers interested in film studies, gender studies, and social critique, especially those fascinated by horror as a lens on societal issues.
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In Stepford Daughters, Johanna Isaacson explores an emerging wave of horror films that get why class horror and gender horror must be understood together.
In doing so, Isaacson makes the case that this often-maligned genre is, in fact, a place where oppressed people can understand, navigate and confront an increasingly ugly and horrifying world.
Films like Hereditary and The Babadook show women coming apart at the seams as the promises of both the family and waged work fail them. In Get Out, we see how poor women and women of colour perform the invisible labour that holds up our society, experiencing domestic work as a kind of possession.
In "coming of rage" films such as Assassination Nation and Teeth, we see the ways social reproduction leads to a futureless horizon. Robbed of their dreams but not their power to resist, these heroines emerge as the monsters and avengers we need.
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ISBN: 9781942173694
Publisher: Common Notions
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 17 November 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Common Notions
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 12.0mm
Width: 139.0mm
Height: 215.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 244
About the Author
Johanna Isaacson
writes academic and popular pieces on horror and politics. She is a professor of English at Modesto Junior College and a founding editor of Blind Field Journal. She is the author of The Ballerina and the Bull, has published widely in academic and popular journals, and runs the Facebook group, "Anti-capitalist Feminists Who Like Horror Films."
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