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The New Female Antihero: The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century US Television Aron Nels Steinke The most powerful woman inThe 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 shift in television storytelling toward increasingly complex storylines and characters. In this study, Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman zoom in on a key figure in this transformation: the archetype of the female antihero. Far from the sunny, sincere, plucky persona once demanded of female