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Gender re-balancing in the works of Neil Gaiman
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Gender re-balancing in the works of Neil Gaiman
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Soden
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Gwendolyn Grove
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Rutgers University
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Camden Graduate School
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Neil 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.
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Supplementary File: Images for Gender Re-Balancing in the Works of Neil Gaiman
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1 online resource (iii, 57 p.)
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M.A.
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by Gwendolyn Grove Soden
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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