Responding to the more and more strong presence of dystopian literature for teenagers, this quantity makes a speciality of novels that includes a feminine protagonist who contends with societal and governmental threats even as that she is navigating the treacherous waters of younger maturity. The members relate the liminal nature of the feminine protagonist to liminality as a unifying characteristic of dystopian literature, literature for and approximately younger ladies, and cultural expectancies of adolescent womanhood. Divided into 3 sections, the gathering investigates cultural assumptions and expectancies of adolescent ladies, considers a number of the technique of resistance and uprising made on hand to and explored by way of lady protagonists, and examines how the adolescent woman protagonist is positioned with admire to the teams and environments that encompass her. In a sequence of thought-provoking essays on quite a lot of writers that comes with Libba Bray, Scott Westerfeld, Tahereh Mafi, Veronica Roth, Marissa Meyer, best friend Condie, and Suzanne Collins, the gathering makes a resounding case for a way this rebellious determine interrogates the competing structures of adolescent womanhood in late-twentieth- and early twenty-first-century culture.