What are we? adolescence, sex and intimacy in Buffy the Vampire SlayerFootnote1

This is a revised, and shortened, version of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, 1 April 2002 in New Orleans. The paper was entitled ‘What are we? Adolescent transformations in Buffy the Vampire Slayer’.

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