Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film.
Chappell, Julie A.; Young, Mallory.
2017
HM621-HM656
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Title Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film.
Author Chappell, Julie A.
ISBN 9783319472591
3319472593
9783319472584
3319472585
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47259-1
Imprint Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (289 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-47259-1 doi
Call Number HM621-HM656
Dewey Decimal Classification 301
Summary This collection of essays focuses on the representations of a variety of?bad girls????????women who challenge, refuse, or transgress the patriarchal limits intended to circumscribe them--in television, popular fiction, and mainstream film from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Perhaps not surprisingly, the initial introduction of women into Western cultural narrative coincides with the introduction of transgressive women. From the beginning, for good or ill, women have been depicted as insubordinate. Today's popular manifestations include such widely known figures as Lisbeth Salander (the?girl with the dragon tattoo?), The Walking Dead's Michonne, and the queen bees of teen television series. While the existence and prominence of transgressive women has continued uninterrupted, however, attitudes towards them have varied considerably. It is those attitudes that are explored in this collection. At the same time, these essays place feminist/postfeminist analysis in a larger context, entering into ongoing debates about power, equality, sexuality, and gender.
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1. Introduction
Mallory Young
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Kaley A. Kramer
3. Hollywood's Warrior Woman for the New Millennium
Kate Waites
4. Reading Kathleen Mallory: Trauma and Survival in the Detective Fiction of Carol O'Connell
Kathleen A. Kennedy
5. Vera Caspary's Bedelia: Murder as a Domestic Art, or Lethal Home Economics
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6. The Dirty Secret: Domestic Disarray in Chick Lit
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7. Good Teachers, Bad Teachers, and Comedic Performance in Popular American Cinema
Joel Gwynne
8. Mean Girls End Up Dead: The Dismal Fate of Teen Queen Bees in Popular Culture
Sara K. Day
9. Bad Girl, Bad Mother, Bad Queen: Catherine de' Medici in Contemporary Fiction, Film, and History
William B. Robison
10.?Let Them Know That Men Did This?: Medusa, Rape, and Female Rivalry in Contemporary Film and Women's Writing
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12. Just Another Monster: Michonne's Defiance in The Walking Dead
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13. Bad Girls in Outer Space: Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples' Saga and the Graphic Representation of Subversive Femininity
Mihaela Precup and Dragoş Manea.

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