Kathleen Rowe Karlyn is Professor of English and Director of the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Oregon. Her publications include the award-winning The Unruly Woman: Gender and the Genres of Laughter and articles in Screen, Cinema Journal, Genders, Feminist Media Studies, and other journals and anthologies. She has been interviewed by major media outlets, and her work, especially on comedy and the unruly woman, has been reprinted, cited, and taught worldwide.

This is a remarkable and deeply trenchant book, absolutely immersed in the cultural phenomenon it seeks to examine.  Karlyn is a superb writer, and this lavishly illustrated, deeply thoughtful volume is a significant contribution to the existing literature on the subject. (Choice)

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Bad Mothers, Angry Girls 1. Postfeminism and the Third Wave: Titanic2. Trouble in Paradise: American Beauty and the Incest Motif 3. Girl World: Clueless, Mean Girls, and The Devil Wears Prada4. Final Girls and Epic Fantasies: Remaking the World 5. How Reese Witherspoon Walks the Line 6. Teen-Girl Melodramas: My So-Called Life and Thirteen7. Girls of Color: Beyond Girl World 8. The Motherline and a Wicked Powerful Feminism: Antonia's LineAfterword Notes Works Cited Index

Kathleen Rowe Karlyn is Professor of English and Director of the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Oregon. Her publications include the award-winning The Unruly Woman: Gender and the Genres of Laughter and articles in Screen, Cinema Journal, Genders, Feminist Media Studies, and other journals and anthologies. She has been interviewed by major media outlets, and her work, especially on comedy and the unruly woman, has been reprinted, cited, and taught worldwide.

This is a remarkable and deeply trenchant book, absolutely immersed in the cultural phenomenon it seeks to examine.  Karlyn is a superb writer, and this lavishly illustrated, deeply thoughtful volume is a significant contribution to the existing literature on the subject. (Choice)

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Bad Mothers, Angry Girls 1. Postfeminism and the Third Wave: Titanic2. Trouble in Paradise: American Beauty and the Incest Motif 3. Girl World: Clueless, Mean Girls, and The Devil Wears Prada4. Final Girls and Epic Fantasies: Remaking the World 5. How Reese Witherspoon Walks the Line 6. Teen-Girl Melodramas: My So-Called Life and Thirteen7. Girls of Color: Beyond Girl World 8. The Motherline and a Wicked Powerful Feminism: Antonia's LineAfterword Notes Works Cited Index

Kathleen Rowe Karlyn is Professor of English and Director of the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Oregon. Her publications include the award-winning The Unruly Woman: Gender and the Genres of Laughter and articles in Screen, Cinema Journal, Genders, Feminist Media Studies, and other journals and anthologies. She has been interviewed by major media outlets, and her work, especially on comedy and the unruly woman, has been reprinted, cited, and taught worldwide.

This is a remarkable and deeply trenchant book, absolutely immersed in the cultural phenomenon it seeks to examine.  Karlyn is a superb writer, and this lavishly illustrated, deeply thoughtful volume is a significant contribution to the existing literature on the subject. (Choice)

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Bad Mothers, Angry Girls 1. Postfeminism and the Third Wave: Titanic2. Trouble in Paradise: American Beauty and the Incest Motif 3. Girl World: Clueless, Mean Girls, and The Devil Wears Prada4. Final Girls and Epic Fantasies: Remaking the World 5. How Reese Witherspoon Walks the Line 6. Teen-Girl Melodramas: My So-Called Life and Thirteen7. Girls of Color: Beyond Girl World 8. The Motherline and a Wicked Powerful Feminism: Antonia's LineAfterword Notes Works Cited Index