Aguiar, focusing on the traits and characteristics of the strong-willed female protagonist, analyzes over one hundred examples in a wide range of literature. Among the characters discussed are Zenia in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride, Ruth Patchett in Fay Weldon's The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Sula in Toni Morrison's Sula, and Ginny in Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres.

This title purchased in Feb 2017 for TOP Program.

Introduction: The season of the bitch. -- To arche the type or not to arche the type. -- The male perspective. -- Women reading and women writing the bitch. -- Revising the literary history. -- The art of becoming the bitch. -- Syzygy. -- Coda: The bitch code.