Introduction / Yana Hashamova, Beth Holmgren and Mark Lipovetsky
Section One. Performing bad behavior
From the legs up : the rise and retreat of the chorus girl in interwar Poland / Beth Holmgren
Un/taming the unruly woman : from melodramatic containment to carnivalistic utopia / Elena Prokhorova and Alexander Prokhorov
Performing history as a story : Faina Ranevskaia and the art of remembering / Marina Balina
The gesture of alterity : Renata Litvinova and the mediation of contemporary Russian sensibility / Vlad Strukov
Section Two. Committing sacrilege
Talking back and more : women's subversive behavior in Bulgarian and Bosnian films / Yana Hashamova
"How long can you go crushing bones, I ask you?" : the "bad mother" in Liudmila Petrushevskaia's The time: Night / Mark Lipovetsky and Tatiana Mikhailova
Women who eat too much : consuming female bodies in Polish cinema / Elzbieta Ostrowska
Bad mothers in Russian children's literature after 1991 : alcoholism, neglect, and the problem of post-socialist realism / Andrea Lanoux
Section Three. Politicizing bad behavior
Femen, a litmus / Jessica Zychowicz
Beating around the bush : Pussy Riot and the anatomy of the body politic / Eliot Borenstein
Bad girls, apocalyptic beasts, redemption : a tribute to Helena Goscilo / Nadezhda Azhgikhina and Irina Sandomirskaia.