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.

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 the Psychological Complexity of the Antiheroine in Contemporary Domestic Noir Fiction - Liz Evans

9."Maybe She's Not Such a Heinous Bitch After All": Representations of the Antiheroine in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - Stephanie Salerno

10.The Antiheroine and the Representation of PTSD: The Case of Jessica Jones - Anja Meyer

11."Small-breasted Psycho": Debunking the Female Psychopath in Killing Eve - Siobhan Lyons

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