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Gender Dynamics in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been widely acclaimed as a feminist television series. The show was included in the National Organization for Women’s “Feminist Primetime Report” (1), and its writers have proclaimed that they intend to tell the coming-of-age story of a young woman from a feminist perspective. According to creator Joss Whedon, “the very first mission statement of the show … was the joy of female power: having it, using it, sharing it” (2). In many ways, Buffy has succeeded in its portrayal of a strong, multi-dimensional female character. Yet upon closer examination, the series' portrayal of gender roles becomes problematic. An underlying paradigm of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is not that men are women are equal, but that
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