Vampire and Replicant
The One-Sex Body in a Two-Sex World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11059671 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cyndy Hendershot (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | Part 3 |
| Pages | 373-398 |
| Publication date | 1995-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Fiction Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-7729 • E-ISSN: 2327-6207 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/sfs.22.3.0373 |
| OpenAlex | W4408855315 |
| Language | EN |
This article explores Dracula, Siegel’s Invasion of lhe Body Snatchers, and Kaufman’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers as texts which complicate stable masculinity by introducing a body in flux. The vampiric body and the replicant body are read as instances of a one-sex body, following Thomas Laqueur’s study of pre-18th-century Western anatomical models. The article argues that the metaphor of the one-sex body resurfaces in these three works, all of which attempt to ground their treatments of sex/gender in the two-sex model, due to their cultural production at historical moments in which traditional gender alignments were in flux. (CH)
Art · Literature · Sociology · Vampire · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
| Highly cited | No |
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