Blood, Body and Soul: Essays on Health, Wellness and Disability in Buffy, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse

ISBN-13: 9781476667638 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 317 str.

Tamy Burnett; Amijo Comeford

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Tamy Burnett and AmiJo Comeford
Part I. Theorizing (Dis)Ability, Medicine, and Wellness
Defining the Whedonverse Disability Narrative Ethic: Examining Impairment Arcs in Dollhouse, Angel, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Mary Ellen Iatropoulos
Slaying the Deficit in Disability: Exploring Buffy and Firefly/Serenity
Cynthia Headley
Angel's Female Freaks: (Dis)Abilties, Professional, and Personal Life Limitations
Lorna Jowett
"The Cliff Notes version? I want a normal life": Slayerhood as ­Social-Model Disability
Elizabeth K. Switaj
Dollhouse and Intellectual Disability
Barbara Stock
"I want to be healthy again": Mental Health and Normality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Roslyn Weaver
Dr. Simon Tam, Healer and Humanist: Medical Models of Health Care in Firefly and Serenity
Brett S. Stifflemire
Suffering, Strength, and the Soul of the Slayer
Madeline Muntersbjorn
Part II: Bodies, Trauma, and Recovery
"Off with their heads!—Kidding!" The Beheading Topos in Angel's Pylea
Cynthea Masson
Regarding Torture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer's "Hush"
Erin Hollis
"You're the one who sees everything!" Xander's Eye Patch and Visible Disability in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Brian Cogan
British Vampire, "American Disease": William the Bloody as Victorian Neurasthenic
J. Bowers
Trauma, Technology, and the Affective Body in Firefly and Dollhouse
Emily James Hansen and Katheryn Wright
The Token Fatty: Three Whedon Series in Search of a "­Normal-Sized" Woman
Sherry Ginn
"It's about power": New Bodies, Connection, and Healing in Seasons Six and Seven of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Kelly L. Richardson
"Sweetie, your epidermis is showing": Theorizing Skin in and Through Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Frances Sprout
"I've got these evil hand issues": Amputation, Identity, and Agency in Angel
Tamy Burnett
Episode Guide
Works Cited
About the Contributors
Index