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Why Twilight Was Never Good (Patreon)

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Addressing the sexism against Twilight doesn't mean erasing the problems with the books. And boy ... there are a lot of those.

Sources:

💎"Sacrificial Scripts, Blood Values and Gender in the Twilight Vampire Narrative" by Grietje Dresen {https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctv2gjwtb8.14}

💎"TWILIGHT" IS NOT GOOD FOR MAIDENS: GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND THE FAMILY IN STEPHENIE MEYER'S "TWILIGHT" SERIES by ANNA SILVER {https://www.jstor.org/stable/29533972}

💎 "My Vampire Boyfriend: Postfeminism, "Perfect" Masculinity, and the Contemporary Appeal of Paranormal Romance" by Ananya Mukherjea {https://www.jstor.org/stable/23416381}

💎 "Twilight's Heteronormative Reversal of the Monstrous: Utopia and the Gothic Design" by Kelly Budruweit

{https://www.jstor.org/stable/26321204}

💎 "Civilized Vampires Versus Savage Werewolves Race and Ethnicity in the Twilight Series" by Natalie Wilson

{https://www.academia.edu/28684886/Civilized_Vampires_Versus_Savage_Werewolves_Race_and_Ethnicity_in_the_Twilight_Series}

💎"DO MORMON MOMS DREAM OF MONSTROUS GODS?" STEPHENIE MEYER’S TWILIGHT MYTH AS MORMON HEROINE’S JOURNEY" By Maxine Hanks

{https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/157-26-30.pdf}

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Why Twilight Was Never Good

Addressing the sexism against Twilight doesn't mean erasing the problems with the books. And boy ... there are a lot of those. Sources: 💎"Sacrificial Scripts, Blood Values and Gender in the Twilight Vampire Narrative" by Grietje Dresen {https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctv2gjwtb8.14} 💎"TWILIGHT" IS NOT GOOD FOR MAIDENS: GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND THE FAMILY IN STEPHENIE MEYER'S "TWILIGHT" SERIES by ANNA SILVER {https://www.jstor.org/stable/29533972} 💎 "My Vampire Boyfriend: Postfeminism, "Perfect" Masculinity, and the Contemporary Appeal of Paranormal Romance" by Ananya Mukherjea {https://www.jstor.org/stable/23416381} 💎 "Twilight's Heteronormative Reversal of the Monstrous: Utopia and the Gothic Design" by Kelly Budruweit {https://www.jstor.org/stable/26321204} 💎 "Civilized Vampires Versus Savage Werewolves Race and Ethnicity in the Twilight Series" by Natalie Wilson {https://www.academia.edu/28684886/Civilized_Vampires_Versus_Savage_Werewolves_Race_and_Ethnicity_in_the_Twilight_Series} 💎"DO MORMON MOMS DREAM OF MONSTROUS GODS?" STEPHENIE MEYER’S TWILIGHT MYTH AS MORMON HEROINE’S JOURNEY" By Maxine Hanks {https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/157-26-30.pdf}