Edgy Un/Intelligibilities: Feminist/Monster Theory Meets Ginger Snaps

This article analyzes the Canadian werewolf film Ginger Snaps (2000) through various feminist lenses at the intersection of sex, gender, and sexuality. While academic scholarship on the film at this particular intersection is extremely limited, articles that read Ginger Fitzgerald’s transformation...

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Main Author: Heather Tapley
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Language:English
Published: Mount Saint Vincent University 2016-10-01
Series:Atlantis
Online Access:https://140.230.24.104/index.php/atlantis/article/view/3390
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description This article analyzes the Canadian werewolf film Ginger Snaps (2000) through various feminist lenses at the intersection of sex, gender, and sexuality. While academic scholarship on the film at this particular intersection is extremely limited, articles that read Ginger Fitzgerald’s transformation into werewolf and menstruating female as empowering dominate the field. The following, however, moves to trouble such structural readings based in identity-politics and offers, in addition, a reading of political possibilities generated from poststructural approaches to monstrosity. Résumé Cet article analyse le film de loup-garou canadien Ginger Snaps (2000) par le biais de différentes optiques féministes à l’intersection du sexe, du genre et de la sexualité. Bien que la recherche universitaire sur le film à cette intersection en particulier soit extrêmement limitée, les articles qui dominent le domaine interprètent la transformation de Ginger Fitzgerald en loup-garou et en femme menstruée comme donnant un sentiment de pouvoir. Ce qui suit, toutefois, cherche à déranger ces lectures structurelles ancrées dans la politique identitaire et offre, en outre, une lecture des possibilités judicieuses générée des approches post-structurales à la monstruosité.
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spelling doaj-art-6535cdb97f894852af2d8ec61a6b6ff42025-08-20T02:15:41ZengMount Saint Vincent UniversityAtlantis0702-78181715-06982016-10-01372 (2)Edgy Un/Intelligibilities: Feminist/Monster Theory Meets Ginger SnapsHeather Tapley0University of Victoria This article analyzes the Canadian werewolf film Ginger Snaps (2000) through various feminist lenses at the intersection of sex, gender, and sexuality. While academic scholarship on the film at this particular intersection is extremely limited, articles that read Ginger Fitzgerald’s transformation into werewolf and menstruating female as empowering dominate the field. The following, however, moves to trouble such structural readings based in identity-politics and offers, in addition, a reading of political possibilities generated from poststructural approaches to monstrosity. Résumé Cet article analyse le film de loup-garou canadien Ginger Snaps (2000) par le biais de différentes optiques féministes à l’intersection du sexe, du genre et de la sexualité. Bien que la recherche universitaire sur le film à cette intersection en particulier soit extrêmement limitée, les articles qui dominent le domaine interprètent la transformation de Ginger Fitzgerald en loup-garou et en femme menstruée comme donnant un sentiment de pouvoir. Ce qui suit, toutefois, cherche à déranger ces lectures structurelles ancrées dans la politique identitaire et offre, en outre, une lecture des possibilités judicieuses générée des approches post-structurales à la monstruosité. https://140.230.24.104/index.php/atlantis/article/view/3390
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