Sara K. Day is Assistant Professor of English at Southern Arkansas University, USA; Miranda A. Green-Barteet is joint appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research and the Department of English and Writing Studies at the University of Western Ontario, Canada; and Amy L. Montz is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana, USA.

Introduction: From "New Woman" to "Future Girl": The Roots and the Rise of the Female Protagonist in Contemporary Young Adult Dystopias; Part I Reflections and Reconsiderations of Rebellious Girlhood; Chapter 1 Girl Power and Girl Activism in the Fiction of Suzanne Collins, Scott Westerfeld, and Moira Young, Sonya Sawyer Fritz; Chapter 2 "I'm beginning to know who I am": The Rebellious Subjectivities of Katniss Everdeen and Tris Prior, Miranda A. Green-Barteet; Chapter 3 Of Scrivens and Sparks: Girl Geniuses in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction, Rachel Dean-Ruzicka; Chapter 4 Docile Bodies, Dangerous Bodies: Sexual Awakening and Social Resistance in Young Adult Dystopian Novels, Sara K. Day; Part II Forms and Signs of Rebellion; Chapter 5 Gender Rolls: Bread and Resistance in the "Hunger Games" Trilogy, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey; Chapter 6 Rebels in Dresses: Distractions of Competitive Girlhood in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction, Amy L. Montz; Chapter 7 The Three Faces of Tally Youngblood: Rebellious Identity-Changing in Scott Westerfeld's "Uglies" Series, Mary Jeanette Moran; Chapter 8 "Perpetually waving to an unseen crowd": Satire and Process in Beauty Queens, Bridgitte Barclay; Part III Contexts and Communities of Rebellion; Chapter 9 Rebellious Natures: The Role of Nature in Young Adult Dystopian Female Protagonists' Awakenings and Agency, Megan McDonough, Katherine A. Wagner; Chapter 10 Real or Not Real-Katniss Everdeen Loves Peeta Melark: The Lingering Effects of Discipline in the "Hunger Games" Trilogy, June Pulliam; Chapter 11 The Incompatibility of Female Friendships and Rebellion, Ann M. M. Childs;