With seven main chapters covering Girl Power, Good Girls, Bad Girls, Tough Guys, New Men, Dead Boys, and Parental Issues, Lorna Jowett has covered all of the necessary bases promised in the wittily titled Sex And The Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer For The Buffy Fan. Writing in an accessible and brainy prose style, Jowett clearly explicates a wide number of gender-oriented issues. Complete with index, a listing of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes, a sizeable bibliography, and detailed endnotes, this text clearly sets the bar for future Buffy scholarship.

(Source: Wesleyan University Press)