Gender Warriors: Reading Contemporary Urban Fantasy offers classroom-ready original essays demonstrating how representations of gender and the kick-ass female urban fantasy warrior have unraveled and reinforced gender and genre expectations and tropes, making it a valuable text for any course.

U. Melissa Anyiwo is a Professor and Coordinator of African American Studies at Curry College, Massachusetts. She has published multiple texts on the vampire as ethnic archetype, including Race in the Vampire Narrative (Sense Publishers, 2015).
Amanda Jo Hobson is the Assistant Dean of Students and Director of the Women's Resource Center at Indiana State University. She has published several chapters on vampires in popular culture and is the co-editor of Gender in the Vampire Narrative (Sense Publishers, 2016).