Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film

By: Julie A. Chappell and Mallory Young

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Synopsis: This edited volume interrogates the representation of transgressive women in television, popular fiction, and mainstream film from the mid-to-late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Each of essay concentrates on the perception of women, young and old, as "bad girls," those defying or transgressing the traditional social roles, attitudes, and pursuits defined as "appropriate" for women and girls. In presenting these treatments, this volume analyzes longstanding and more recent questions surrounding the role and importance of women who "just say no. " With examples across popular media and literature, what remains a constant among all of these bad girls despite their different media and personalities is the will to cross the boundaries of behavior deemed, by prevailing authorities, to be acceptable.