abstract:Rebecca Housel is an American author/editor and feminist scholar known for her analyses of various pop culture entertainment franchises including X-Men, Twilight, True Blood and Downton Abbey, which appear in books by Wiley & Sons' Pop Culture and Philosophy series and in articles in magazines such as Shalom magazine. Housel is on the Editorial Advisory Boards for the Journal of Popular Culture and Journal of American Culture, for which she has written books such as the 2012 Duke University Press volume, Sex and Disability.