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Consuming Clothes and Dressing Desire in the Twilight series

2013
‘In the beginning’ clothing was the biblical mark of sin when ‘The Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins, and clothed them’ (Genesis 3.21, English Revised Version) and the Old Testament warned against ‘the bravery of their tinkling ornaments’ (Isaiah 3.18 King James Version).
S. Heaton
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Gender Norms in the Twilight Series

Contexts, 2011
The hit series Twilight replicates gender stereotypes that sociologists have been debunking for decades. Rebecca Hayes-Smith highlights the gravity of making light of harmful gender messages.
Rebecca Hayes-Smith
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Transcending the Massacre: Vampire Mormons in the Twilight Series

2013
As Sarah Heaton has noted earlier in this collection, Stephenie Meyer is famously a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the largest church of the Mormon group. Much of the research into her novels has so far focused on the ways in which her work can be read in relation to the teachings of the church.
Yael Maurer
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Sparkling vampires: Valorizing self-harming behavior in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series

Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, 2011
The author provides an in-depth examination of the popular Twilight series in terms of the depiction of self-harming behaviors, noting interesting parallels with theories about battered women and raising questions about how such issues are handled in novels for young people.
Lydia Kokkola
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Monstrosising Infertility: Supernatural Barren Females in the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer

2013
The representation of an infertile woman as a monster has been long present in the cultural history of the world. The inability to bear children was well established as one of the main characteristics in the construction of the monstrous female already in ancient times and the Middle Ages.
Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska
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Educating Edward and others: The issue of endless education in Meyer’s Twilight series

Horror Studies, 2015
Abstract The issue of education within the Twilight series has received comparatively little critical attention to date, despite the importance of its high school setting in both the great romance between Bella and Edward, and the Cullen family’s repeated attendance of high school and college in order to blend in with the human ...
Carys Crossen
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Content Analysis: Images of Dating Violence in the Twilight Series

2014
Dianne C. Carmody, Victoria E. Collins
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Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the 'Twilight' Series

2016
Anne Morey
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Cultivating Perspectives: Fragile Bodies in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series

2015
H. Macleod
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Green is the New Black: Ecophobia and the Gothic Landscape in the Twilight Series

2011
Displaced from her beloved home in arid Arizona, Bella Swan of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga finds herself overwhelmed by greenery. Her new home on the Olympic Peninsula is surrounded by temperate rain forests lush with ferns, sitka spruces, and dripping mosses; even the tidal pools of the nearby beach are “teeming with life.”1 This profusion of ...
Tara K. Parmiter
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