Notes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prologue ix
4. Introduction: The New Female Antihero—The What, the Why, the How 1
5. Part I: Ambition TV
6. 1 The Limits of the Female Antihero in Game of Thrones 27
7. 2 The Impossibility of the Marriage Plot in The Americans 49
8. 3 Scandal and the Failure of Postracial Fantasy 72
9. 4 Homeland and the Rejection of the Domestic Plot 95
10. Part II: Shame TV
11. 5 Feminist Anti-Aspirationalism in Girls 117
12. 6 Liberation and Whiteness in Broad City 140
13. 7 The Difference That Race Makes in Insecure 160
14. 8 Working-Class Identity and Matriarchal Community in SMILF 179
15. Epilogue 203
16. Acknowledgments 209
17. Notes 211
18. Index 253