By Way of Introduction: Girl(hood)s in Context

Girlhood in Context

Storytelling Girlhoods

PART I Fairy Tales and Emerging Girlhoods in the 20th and 21st Centuries

1: Towards (Un)taming Girlhood: Fairy Tales, Popular Culture, and the Cultural Imaginary

2: Forging New Pathways through the Forest: Red Riding Hood and New Becomings

The Journey through the Woods

Embracing the Wolf (Within): Red Riding Hood, Self-Knowledge, and Selfhood

The Huntsman with No Damsel in Distress to Save

3: Before They Were Evil, Before They Were Queens: Trauma, Female Rivalry and (Be)coming (into) Self

"It is not power that corrupts; it is powerlessness": How the Queen Becomes a Villain

Complicit and Compliant: Intergenerational Trauma and Female Relationships

Recovering Female Communitas: Kissing Old Stereotypes Good-bye?

PART II Unruly Girls: Warriors and Witches

4: Killer Girls: Red Riding Hood, the Wolf and Girl (Em)power(ed)

A Bloody Mess: Red Riding Hood, Werewolves, and Menstruation

Killer Girls Take (Back) Control: Red Riding Hood in Hard Candy and Freeway

5: This Princess Wears Combat Boots: The Dystopia of Girl Warrior Heroes

Girlhood on Display: The Girl Warrior Hero

Taking (Back) Control: (Personal) Performance and (Politicized) Becoming

A "New" Kind of Female Hero: The Fairy-Tale Princess Gets a Makeover

6: Beyond the Fairy-Tale Witch: Contemporary Girl(hood)s in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Sabrina: Rebooting Mortal and Witch Girlhoods

Sisterhood and the Rise Against the Patriarchy

Conclusion