BBC's Orphan Black shattered conventions with one actress - Tatiana Maslany - playing a host of main characters. At the same time, it burst through the expectations of a crowd that anticipated male heroes and female victims. This volume provides an analysis of the series.

Table of Contents Introduction delete Season Themes Season One: Rejection and ­Self-Hatred Season Two: Autonomy Season Three: We’d Do Anything for Family Season Four: Strange Bedfellows Season Five: Self Definition Literature, Games, Symbols and Allusions Metafiction, Roleplay and ­Gender-Flipping Games as Metaphors Inside the Credits Thoughts on Genre Literature Behind the Season Titles Allusions and Inspirations The Science, Real and Emblematic Inside Neolution Cloning Ethics Science versus Religion Characters as Feminist Embodiments Sarah the Punk Sarah’s Matrifocal Family Felix and Art: Cultural Feminists Vic the Bully Helena: From Cultist to Pagan Guide Amelia and Kendra: Black Feminism Alison: Back to the Gothic Home Donnie: New Man or Family Joke? Cosima: Classic Second Wave Beth Goes Third Wave Siobhan the Rebel Castors: Military Hierarchy Paul the Macho Man Cal Goes Off the Grid Rachel the Gender Traitor Tony’s Trans Struggle Gracie the Victim Kendall the Matriarch Krystal Goderitch: Girl Power Scott and Hell Wizard: Sidekicks Delphine: Dead Lesbian? False Prince Ferdinand Mika: ­Cyber-Anarchist Susan and Coady: Ruling Man’s World Ira the Emasculated Assistant Leekie and Westmorland: The Patriarchy The Next Generation: Kira and the Girls Katja to Camilla: Global Feminism Looking to the Future delete Episodes delete Works Cited delete Index delete