| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 289 pages) : color illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: Bad girls in popular culture / Mallory Young |
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Part I. Crime and punishment. "How do you Like my darkness now?": women, violence, and the good "bad girl" in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Kaley Kramer -- Hollywood's warrior woman for the new millennium / Kate Waites -- Reading Kathleen Mallory: trauma and survival in the detective fiction of Carol O'Connell / Kathleen Kennedy |
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Part II. Domestic arts. Vera Caspary's Bedelia: murder as a domestic art, or lethal home economics / Kirsten T. Saxton -- The dirty secret: domestic disarray in chick lit / Joanne Knowles |
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Part III. Academic performance. Good teachers, bad teachers, and transgressive comedic performance in popular American cinema / Joel Gwynne -- Mean girls end up dead: the dismal fate of teen queen bees in popular culture / Sara K. Day |
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Part IV. Revisionist Perspectives. Bad girl, bad mother, bad queen: Catherine de' Medici in contemporary fiction, film, and history / William B. Robison -- "Let them know that men did this": Medusa, rape, and female rivalry in contemporary film and women's writing / Elizabeth Johnston |
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Part V. Alternate realities. At the crossroads: carnival, hybridity, and legendary womanhood in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber / N. A. Pierce -- "Just another monster": Michonne and the trope of the angry black woman / Samaa Abdurraqib -- Bad girls in outer space: Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples' Saga and the graphic representation of subversive femininity / Mihaela Precup and Dragos Manea |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- History.
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Women in popular culture.
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Women in motion pictures.
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Feminism.
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Women on television.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Young, Mallory, 1952- editor
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Chappell, Julie, 1950- editor
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EBSCOhost
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| ISBN |
9783319472591 (electronic bk.) |
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3319472593 (electronic bk.) |
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