Download PDF by Julie A. Chappell,Mallory Young: Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television,

By Julie A. Chappell,Mallory Young

ISBN-10: 3319472585

ISBN-13: 9783319472584

This selection of essays specializes in the representations of a number of “bad girls”—women who problem, refuse, or transgress the patriarchal limits meant to circumscribe them—in tv, well known fiction, and mainstream movie from the mid-twentieth century to the current. probably now not unusually, the preliminary creation of girls into Western cultural narrative coincides with the creation of transgressive girls. From the start, for sturdy or in poor health, girls were depicted as insubordinate. Today’s well known manifestations contain such well known figures as Lisbeth Salander (the “girl with the dragon tattoo”), The jogging Dead’s Michonne, and the queen bees of teenage tv sequence. whereas the life and prominence of transgressive girls has persevered uninterrupted, although, attitudes in the direction of them have diversified significantly. it's these attitudes which are explored during this assortment. even as, those essays position feminist/postfeminist research in a bigger context, moving into ongoing debates approximately energy, equality, sexuality, and gender.

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