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This text offers a critical engagement with media and cultural theory to analyze how the antiheroine trope is employed to challenge the socio-political discourses scripted in contemporary narratives. Each chapter works to complicate our understandings of women characters and the intersections of identity, power, and culture that shape them.
List of contents
Introduction
Part I: Making a Mess of Motherhood
1. From "Basic Bitch" to "Boss Bitch": Morality & Motherhood in NBC's Good Girls - Henriette-Juliane Seeliger and Tiara Sukhan
2. Challenging Cultural Attitudes to Maternal Ambivalence through Antiheroines in The Americans and Homeland - Brenda Boudreau
3. Tracking the Relationships between Post-feminism, Representations of Ageing Women, and the Rise of Popular Misogyny as Portrayed in FX's Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014) - Lucinda Rasmussen
4. "As Bad as Him": Reframing Skyler White as the Overlooked Antiheroine - Melanie Piper
Part II: Women to Watch (Out For)
5. The Other's Hero: The Importance of Annalise Keating and Olivia Pope as Black Antiheroines - Melanie Haas
6. Where the Streets Have No Shame: Queen Cersei Lannister's Journey to Alternative Patriarchy - Louise Coopey
7. Killing Eve and the Necessity of the Female Villain du Jour - Kathleen Waites
Part III: Crazy is a Sexist Word
8. Rewriting the Psycho Bitch: Exploring
About the author
Melanie Haas is chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Southeast Arkansas College and is completing her PhD in Rhetoric at Texas Woman’s University. N.A. Pierce is completing her PhD in English Literature at Old Dominion University.Gretchen Busl is associate professor and graduate program coordinator in the Department of English, Speech, and Foreign Languages at Texas Woman's University.Melanie Haas is chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Southeast Arkansas College and is completing her PhD in Rhetoric at Texas Woman’s University. N.A. Pierce is completing her PhD in English Literature at Old Dominion University.Brenda Boudreau is professor of English at McKendree University. Paul E. Lenze, Jr. is senior lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Affairs at Northern Arizona University.
Summary
This text offers a critical engagement with media and cultural theory to analyze how the antiheroine trope is employed to challenge the socio-political discourses scripted in contemporary narratives. Each chapter works to complicate our understandings of women characters and the intersections of identity, power, and culture that shape them.
