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Soden, Gwendolyn Grove. Gender re-balancing in the works of Neil Gaiman. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3PC355J

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TitleGender re-balancing in the works of Neil Gaiman
NameSoden, Gwendolyn Grove (author); Blackford, Holly (chair); Rutgers University; Camden Graduate School
Date Created2017
Other Date2017-05 (degree)
SubjectEnglish, Gender, Sex role, Gaiman, Neil--Criticism and interpretation
Extent1 online resource (iii, 57 p.)
DescriptionNeil Gaiman’s female characters challenge the gender-imbalanced status quo typical to myth and fantasy genres. Scholarly research has previously explored these powerful women and identified them as thresholds—conduits to a magical universe who aid and offer passage to Gaiman’s male protagonists. This thesis begins with a deeper examination of gender roles in Gaiman’s magical multiverse by tying into concepts of anthropological structuralism. Within this new framework, Gaiman’s women are analyzed using Joseph Campbell’s hero criteria as they embark on physical and spiritual journeys. The result is a post-modern fantasy heroine unlike any existing archetypal female. Empowered and equal to her hero counterpart, the Gaiman woman ultimately reconciles long-standing thematic, generic, and gender binaries—a groundbreaking change to the centuries-old myth and fantasy genre that has hitherto required strict opposition in all things.
NoteM.A.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Noteby Gwendolyn Grove Soden
Genretheses, ETD graduate
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3PC355J
Languageeng
CollectionCamden Graduate School Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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