I only entered fandom last year (I watched the show last - May?) so I don't know. And I haven't kept up with the academic goings-on in part because - well, mostly because of my inferiority complex. Which I hate - the "I had to drop out of a master's program because of illness and money, I haven't kept up with the currents of academic thought, this is over my head blah blah I need to self-flagellate now."
Or something like that. Moving on...
The short answer is probably no. *lol* Is there a link to your paper? I'm guessing not. I just bookmarked the first link which I have not read; the second link doesn't work though, can you try it again? I have seen the video "Origins Story" I think is the title (is that the vid you're referring to?), which deals mostly with Robin Wood, Nikki and Dana in terms of btvs/ats prioritizing the POV's of the white male characters esp Spike i.e. in a verse originating from a female Slayer, the killers' pain is front and center, as well as fetishized.
I have read Eleusis_walks' meta as I mentioned and it covers that ground as well. I tried to find the link but my access has been denied, I have no idea why.
Even when you throw Christianity out the window, it's white European paganism that replaces it.
And a very modern interpretation of it, as dragonyphoenix reminded me the other day. ("paganism" and "wicca" as we understand it now was essentially born in the late 19th century when there was a rise in interest in anti-Christian thought, in spiritualism and the otherworldly, in a fantasy of a pre-Christian past, in reaction against the materialism and capitalist focus of the Industrial Revolution; the same currents that produced the Arts and Crafts movement, art nouveau, etc.)
I recognized the Guardian from my interest in Goddess and feminist theology in college in the '90's. I can see now that it was an extension of feminism, being able to grasp Divinity as Female in ways we'd been denied except via the Virgin Mary and the Saints (who all served the Male God, many of them a martyrs.) It was exciting at the time for me and my friends esp those of us with Catholic backgrounds. But it was also, I can see now, a sort of turning away from street-level, grass-roots collective political activism in favor of individualism and turning inward, working on "oneself". I'm not saying that's a bad thing by itself but it's also very much rooted in white middle-class academia, or those with access to it as I was, and those who think "the fight is over", perhaps because they're too comfortable to have to worry about even finding work never mind job parity.
And it also doesn't really revolutionize or "explode" the pre-existing paradigm so much as reproduce it: the Maiden, Mother and Crone, etc. Christianity stole from paganism, paganism steals from Christianity in return. I remember reading a quote in a book at the time from a woman rabbi: "Heaven preserve me from Yahweh in drag!"
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Or something like that. Moving on...
The short answer is probably no. *lol* Is there a link to your paper? I'm guessing not. I just bookmarked the first link which I have not read; the second link doesn't work though, can you try it again? I have seen the video "Origins Story" I think is the title (is that the vid you're referring to?), which deals mostly with Robin Wood, Nikki and Dana in terms of btvs/ats prioritizing the POV's of the white male characters esp Spike i.e. in a verse originating from a female Slayer, the killers' pain is front and center, as well as fetishized.
I have read Eleusis_walks' meta as I mentioned and it covers that ground as well. I tried to find the link but my access has been denied, I have no idea why.
Even when you throw Christianity out the window, it's white European paganism that replaces it.
And a very modern interpretation of it, as
I recognized the Guardian from my interest in Goddess and feminist theology in college in the '90's. I can see now that it was an extension of feminism, being able to grasp Divinity as Female in ways we'd been denied except via the Virgin Mary and the Saints (who all served the Male God, many of them a martyrs.) It was exciting at the time for me and my friends esp those of us with Catholic backgrounds. But it was also, I can see now, a sort of turning away from street-level, grass-roots collective political activism in favor of individualism and turning inward, working on "oneself". I'm not saying that's a bad thing by itself but it's also very much rooted in white middle-class academia, or those with access to it as I was, and those who think "the fight is over", perhaps because they're too comfortable to have to worry about even finding work never mind job parity.
And it also doesn't really revolutionize or "explode" the pre-existing paradigm so much as reproduce it: the Maiden, Mother and Crone, etc. Christianity stole from paganism, paganism steals from Christianity in return. I remember reading a quote in a book at the time from a woman rabbi: "Heaven preserve me from Yahweh in drag!"