Table of Contents Introduction 1 Season Themes Season One: Rejection and ­Self-Hatred 5 Season Two: Autonomy 10 Season Three: We'd Do Anything for Family 17 Season Four: Strange Bedfellows 20 Season Five: Self Definition 24 Literature, Games, Symbols and Allusions Metafiction, Roleplay and ­Gender-Flipping 30 Games as Metaphors 40 Inside the Credits 46 Thoughts on Genre 48 Literature Behind the Season Titles 52 Allusions and Inspirations 61 The Science, Real and Emblematic Inside Neolution 70 Cloning Ethics 82 Science versus Religion 89 Characters as Feminist Embodiments Sarah the Punk 93 Sarah's Matrifocal Family 98 Felix and Art: Cultural Feminists 101 Vic the Bully 107 Helena: From Cultist to Pagan Guide 108 Amelia and Kendra: Black Feminism 122 Alison: Back to the Gothic Home 124 Donnie: New Man or Family Joke? 135 Cosima: Classic Second Wave 139 Beth Goes Third Wave 147 Siobhan the Rebel 150 Castors: Military Hierarchy 156 Paul the Macho Man 162 Cal Goes Off the Grid 164 Rachel the Gender Traitor 165 Tony's Trans Struggle 174 Gracie the Victim 177 Kendall the Matriarch 179 Krystal Goderitch: Girl Power 181 Scott and Hell Wizard: Sidekicks 185 Delphine: Dead Lesbian? 187 False Prince Ferdinand 189 Mika: ­Cyber-Anarchist 192 Susan and Coady: Ruling Man's World 195 Ira the Emasculated Assistant 199 Leekie and Westmorland: The Patriarchy 200 The Next Generation: Kira and the Girls 205 Katja to Camilla: Global Feminism 208 Looking to the Future 211 Episodes 213 Works Cited 215 Index 223.