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Antiheroines of Contemporary Media
Saints, Sinners, and Survivors
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2020
Summary
This volume of essays provides a critical foray into the methods used to construct narratives which foreground antiheroines, a trope which has become increasingly popular within literary media, film, and television. Antiheroine characters engage constructions of motherhood, womanhood, femininity, and selfhood as mediated by the structures that socially prescribe boundaries of gender, sex, and sexuality. Within this collection, scholars of literary, cultural, media, and gender studies address the complications of representing agency, autonomy, and self-determination within narrative texts complicated by age, class, race, sexuality, and a spectrum of privilege that reflects the complexities of scripting women on and off screen, within and beyond the page. This collection offers perspectives on the alternate narratives engendered through the motivations, actions, and agendas of the antiheroine, while engaging with the discourses of how such narratives are employed both as potentially feminist interventions and critiques of access, hierarchy, and power.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-2456-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-2457-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
233
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
ChapterPages
Contents No access Pages 2 - 8
Acknowledgments No access Pages 9 - 10
Introduction No access Pages 11 - 18
1 From “Basic Bitch” to “Boss Bitch” No access
2 Challenging Cultural Attitudes to Maternal Ambivalence through Antiheroines in The Americans and Homeland No access
3 Tracking the Relationships between Postfeminism, Representations of Ageing Women, and the Rise of Popular Misogyny as Portrayed in FX’s Sons of Anarchy (2008–2014) No access
4 “As Bad as Him” No access
5 The Other’s Hero No access
6 Where the Streets Have No Shame No access
7 Killing Eve and the Necessity of the Female Villain du Jour No access
8 Rewriting the Psycho Bitch No access
9 “Maybe She’s Not Such a Heinous Bitch After All” No access
10 The Antiheroine and the Representation of PTSD No access
11 “Small-Breasted Psycho” No access
Index No access Pages 223 - 230
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 231 - 233
