Heroic Girls looks at the recent proliferation of young girl heroes in many recent mainstream films and books. These contemporary ‘final’ girls do not just

This book looks at the recent proliferation of the 'final girl' young heroines who have entered popular consciousness as symbolising the potential and power as

The New Female Antihero examines the hard-edged spies, ruthless queens, and entitled slackers of twenty-first-century television. The last ten years have seen a

Sporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest blackness by re

Reflecting on her own working class roots and taking us into the homes and the confidence of working class girls today, Valerie Walkerdine raises troubling ques