Social and Cultural Identities as expressed though popular works of fantasy written and influenced by female authors.

1. HeatherLawverandtheDefenseAgainsttheDarkArtsCampaign
vs.WarnerBrothers(2001)
http://www.usatoday.co
m/tech/news/2001-02-
22-potter.htm
After her friends were threatened, Lawver, the
creator of a site called www.dprophet.com (named for The
Daily Prophet, a magical newspaper in the Potter books),
says she had had enough and decided to organize the
boycott.
http://memoirsofcomposition.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/the-daily-prophet/

2. MaryShelley1797-1851
• Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus (published 1818)
• Over her lifetime she published 30 other books
• At first audiences couldn’t believe she wrote the book and attributed it to her husband
The Life
of Mary
Shelley
Website

3. CharlaineHarris:SookieStackhouseNovels/SouthernVampires
“In a world where vampires have "come out of the coffin", Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic
waitress, discovers a new world of different creatures when she meets Bill Compton, a vampire.”
http://www.imdb.
com/name/nm23
63895/
The series consists of 13 novels total. Harris’ third novel series.

4. • Why do you think people like fantasy horror or monsters?
• Do you think that capitalism is vampyric in nature? If so is it the
producers or the consumers who give their life’s blood?
• Do you see any significance in women portrayed as victims or
romantic heroines in this genre?
• Does hormone intensity in puberty contribute to the interest in
the fight/flight response or adrenaline/endorphin rush from
horror?
• Is fantasy/horror as a genre necessarily occult in nature or is the
occultism aesthetic primarily a simulacrum, yjay is moy truly
bone chilling?
• How much of attraction to the monster genre is a panopticon
effect for working out dormant complex emotional issues?