Table of Contents
1.Introduction - Mallory Young.- 2.“How do you like my darkness now?”: Women, Violence, and the Good ‘Bad Girl’ in
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 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 - Kirsten T. Saxton.- 6. The Dirty Secret: Domestic Disarray in Chick Lit - Joanne Knowles.- 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 ContemporaryFilm and Women’s Writing - Elizabeth Johnston.- 11. At the Crossroads: Carnival, Hybridity, Legendary Womanhood in Nalo Hopkinson’s
Midnight Robber - N.A. Pierce.- 12. Just Another Monster: Michonne’s Defiance in
The Walking Dead - Samaa Abdurraqib.- 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.