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This book presents 15 essays on female villains in fairy tale narratives of 21st-century media in the context of gender and femininity. English, literature, and media specialists from Europe, South Africa, and the US explore and how female villains in femslash fan fiction are constructed under the lesbian gaze, the significance of queer monstrosity and the reinterpretation of the conservative villain archetype as a subversion of empowerment for queer readers, the constructions of the villain and mother figures in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, and the Wicked Queen in Snow White in the context of gender and body dysmorphia; the adaptation of female villains to the small screen, in The Witcher, His Dark Materials, The Show Queen's Shadow, and A Song of Ice and Fire; aspects of character reformation, with discussion of the information deficit in the portrayal of stepmothers, the remodeling of the fembot archetype in Westworld and Ex Machina, adaptations of the Evil Queen from Snow White, and the Evil Queen in Once Upon a Time; and aspects of physicality, including in Maleficent, Ursula the Sea Witch in The Little Mermaid, and Snow White, Mirror, Mirror, and other media.

Fairy tales --- Fairy tales in literature --- Women in literature --- Villains in literature --- Identité de genre --- Féminisme --- Mythe