Lara C. Stache is associate professor in communication at Governors State University.Rachel D. Davidson is associate professor at Hanover College in the Department of Communication.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Avenging-Woman and FeminismChapter 1: The Visualization of Victimization: The Avenging-Woman and Female ViolenceChapter 2: Homosocial & Heterosocial Friendships: The Avenging-Woman as Man’s Best Friend Chapter 3: Bodysuit, Lipstick, Taser: The Avenging-Woman, Choice, and Sex-Positivity Chapter 4: Technology, Cyborgs, & Power: The Avenging-Woman as Machine Chapter 5: #AvengingWomanSoWhite: Race, Class, and the Right to JusticeChapter 6: “I wasn’t the only dame in Gotham looking for emancipation”: Birds of Prey as a Reluctant Feminist Model of Female EmpowermentChapter 7: Promising Young Woman: A Promising Feminist NarrativeChapter 8: “Who takes their bright pink sorority backpack to vigilante target practice?”: Sweet/Vicious as a Feminist Fantasy for a Millenial GenerationConclusionAppendixReferencesAbout the Authors

Clever, critical, and utterly engaging from beginning to end, The Avenging-Woman On-Screen is a must-have for anyone interested in violence, women, and feminism. Never falling for superficial appeals to women’s empowerment, its well-written and nuanced analysis provides an excellent historical overview of the female-avenger genre from classics such as I Spit on Your Grave to recent post-Weinstein film and television projects including Birds of Prey (2020), and Promising Young Woman (2020). The book also serves as a prism for discussing feminism and feminist rhetoric through its engagement with choice feminism, feminine feminism, enlightened feminism, and popular feminism, which the authors argue can sometimes be counterproductive. The goal for women is neither vengeance nor individual empowerment. It is collective action for systemic changes. This book is a giant step toward such action.