Unlikeable Female Characters

From Sex and the City's Samantha to Mean Girls' Regina, Bogutskaya's entertaining and perceptive volume highlights the iconic female figures who allowed modern women to embrace all of their varied personas.

How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women from having to be nice.

Unlikeable Female Characters traces the evolution of highly memorable female characters, from Samantha Jones as "The Slut" in Sex and the City to the iconic Mean Girl, Regina George, examining what exactly makes them popular, how audiences have reacted to them, and the ways in which pop culture is finally allowing us to celebrate the complexities of being a woman. Anna Bogutskaya, film programmer, broadcaster, and co-founder of the horror film collective and podcast The Final Girls, takes us on a journey through popular film, TV, and music, looking at the nuances of womanhood on and off-screen to reveal whether pop culture-and society-is finally ready to embrace complicated women.