Julie M. Still is on the faculty of the Paul Robeson Library at Rutgers University. She has published and presented on several topics relating to librarianship, history, and literature. Zara T. Wilkinson is a reference librarian at Rutgers University-Camden. In addition to her research interests in librarianship, she has published and presented on the depiction of women in science fiction television shows including Star Trek, Doctor Who, and Orphan Black.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Katharine Kittredge

Introduction (Julie M. Still and Zara T. Wilkinson)

I.¿Images of Female Power

Something Wicked This Way Comes? Power, Anger

and Negotiating the Witch in American Horror Story,

Grimm and Once Upon a Time (Alissa Burger and Stephanie Mix)

Witches, Mothers and Gentlemen: ­Re-Inventing Fairy Tales

in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Kerry Boyles)

Selfish Girls: The Relationship Between Selfishness and Strength

in the Divergent and Tiffany Aching Series (Alice Nuttall)

"Have good sex": Empowerment Through Sexuality as Represented by the Character of Inara Serra in Joss Whedon's Firefly (Patricia Isabella Schumacher)

Girl Power and Depression in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Shyla Saltzman)

II.¿Evolving Femininity

Girl Rebooted: Transforming Doctor Who's Sarah Jane Smith

from Sidekick to Hero (Sheila Sandapen)

The Evolution of Lois Lane: Reflections on Women in Society (Sandra Eckard)

Alternate, Not Arrested Development: Bryan Fuller's Female Protagonists (Trinidad Linares)

III.¿Re-Framing and ­Re-Forming Gender Roles Vampires Who Go to High School: Everyday Women's Culture in Twilight, Dracula and Fifty Shades of Grey (Caolan Madden)

Using the Animator's Tools to Dismantle the Master's House?

Gender, Race, Sexuality and Disability in Cartoon Network's Adventure Time and Steven Universe (Al Valentín)

"Little Geisha Dolls": Postfeminism in Joss Whedon's Firefly (Peregrine Macdonald)

Beyond the Monomyth: Yuriko's ­Multi-Mythic Journey in Miyabe Miyuki's The Book of Heroes (Eleanor J. Hogan)

About the Contributors

Index