Introduction
Retro. The femme fatale who wasn't there: retro noir's glamorous ghosts
Dead girls on film: retro noir and the corpse of the femme fatale
Girls. Bad girls don't cry?: desire, punishment, and girls in crisis
Getting away with it: postfeminism and the victorious girl
Bisexuality. Bisexual detection: visibility, epistemology and contamination
Bisexual fragmentation: failures of representation
Monstrosity. Bodies of evidence: possession, science, and the separation of power
Bodies without origins: beyond the myth of the original woman
Conclusion.