Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel

Blood Relations
Author Jes Battis
Subject Buffyverse
Genre academic publication, Media Study
Publisher McFarland & Company
Publication date
June 23, 2005
Pages 200
ISBN 0-7864-2172-X
OCLC 60311847
791.45/72 22
LC Class PN1992.77.B84 B38 2005

Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel is an academic publication relating to the fictional Buffyverse established by TV series, Buffy and Angel.

Book description

This book looks at the conceptions of family explored in Buffy and Angel. Jes Battis asserts that the series explored nontraditional families that were not necessarily related by blood.

How does "family" relate to concepts of gender, sexuality, power and the supernatural? This book considers such questions. It also examines the "chosen family" as used successfully by programs such as Friends and Sex and the City.

Contents

Chapter Title
1
"Willow as Hybrid, Hero and Middle Child of the Scooby Family"
2
"Xander as Hero, Big Brother and Male in Progress"
3
"Buffy and the Paradox of Mothering"
4
"Fathers Who Watch in Buffy & Angel"
5
"Demonic Maternities, Complex Motherhoods: Cordelia, Fred and the Puzzle of Illyria"
6
"Open and Closed Family Systems"
Afterword
"Families Beyond Buffy"

External links

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