Throughout the long running BBC series Doctor Who, the Doctor has rarely been alone, traveling with both female and male "companions." The companion is essential to Doctor Who because he or she is a stand-in for the audience, providing information about the Doctor's ongoing adventures. With the casting of a female actor in the role of the Doctor in 2018, one criticism of the series was finally resolved. After the shift in gender identity, the role of the Doctor and the companion also shifted--or has it? The continued focus on romantic relations between the TARDIS occupants has led to complaints from both male and female fans, reiterating and reinforcing myriad criticisms about the portrayal of the female companions. Essays in this book consider how gender is presented in Doctor Who and how certain female companions have been able to break out of the gendered roles usually assigned to them through the classic and new series.
Table of Contents
PrefaceTraveling in the Time of Covid: Tenacious, Addlepated, Rumbustical,
Daunting, Insuperable, Stupefying
Sherry Ginn and Gillian I. Leitch
IntroductionBoldly Going Where No Doctor Had Gone Before Until Thirteen
Sherry Ginn and Gillian I. Leitch
Who Says the Doctor Ever Had a Penis?
Caroline-Isabelle Caron
Come on, Ace! Weve got work to do: The Development of the Modern Companion
on Doctor
Michael G. Robinson
Femininity and Indigeneity: Leela in Doctor
Gillian I. Leitch
Give me some of that Nitro-9 youre not carrying: Ace as an Intuitive
Anarcha-Feminist in the Cartmel
Lynne M. Thomas
Reclaiming Her Agency: The Life and Times of Dr. Martha Jones
Sherry Ginn
Is that really what weve learned today? Revising Clara Oswald on Doctor
Heather M. McHale
The Other Women in the Whoniverse: The Social Significance of Madame
Vastra, Jenny Flint, and Bill Potts
Lynnette Porter
Hope Persists: Overcoming Trauma as Thirteen, the Doctor of Hope
Pamela Achenbach
Are you my mummy? Mothering Monsters and the Contradictions of Motherhood
in Doctor
Zara T. Wilkinson
Filmography
About the Contributors
Index
Gillian I. Leitch is an independent scholar and historical researcher and is currently co-chair of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area of the PCA. She lives in Ottawa, Ontario. Sherry Ginn is a retired educator currently living in North Carolina. She has authored books examining female characters on science fiction television series as well as the multiple television worlds of Joss Whedon. Edited collections have examined sex in science fiction, time travel, the apocalypse, and the award-winning series Farscape, Doctor Who, and Fringe.
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