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.