The representation of the sexually autonomous woman tends to either construct the woman as deviant or transgressive or the object of her desire as transgressive. This paper explores the literary and visual construction of two vampire slayers: Laurell K Hamilton’s Anita Blake[1] and Joss Whedon’s Buffy Sommers [Sarah Michelle Gellar][2] from their respective vampire slayer … Continue reading Romancing the vampire: the lives and loves of two vampire slayers – Anita and Buffy – Ingrid Hofman-Howley