Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction: Bad Girls in Popular Culture....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
โHow Do You Like My Darkness Now?โ: Women, Violence, and the Good โBad Girlโ in Buffy the Vampire Slayer ....Pages 15-31
Hollywoodโs Warrior Woman for the New Millennium....Pages 33-49
Reading Kathleen Mallory: Trauma and Survival in the Detective Fiction of Carol OโConnell....Pages 51-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Vera Casparyโs Bedelia: Murder as a Domestic Art, or Lethal Home Economics....Pages 75-95
The Dirty Secret: Domestic Disarray in Chick Lit....Pages 97-117
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Good Teachers, Bad Teachers, and Transgressive Comedic Performance in Popular American Cinema....Pages 121-134
Mean Girls End Up Dead: The Dismal Fate of Teen Queen Bees in Popular Culture....Pages 135-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Bad Girl, Bad Mother, Bad Queen: Catherine deโ Medici in Contemporary Fiction, Film, and History....Pages 159-182
โLet Them Know That Men Did Thisโ: Medusa, Rape, and Female Rivalry in Contemporary Film and Womenโs Writing....Pages 183-208
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
At the Crossroads: Carnival, Hybridity, and Legendary Womanhood in Nalo Hopkinsonโs Midnight Robber ....Pages 211-226
โJust Another Monsterโ: Michonne and the Trope of the Angry Black Woman....Pages 227-251
Bad Girls in Outer Space: Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staplesโ Saga and the Graphic Representation of Subversive Femininity....Pages 253-282
Back Matter....Pages 283-289