Being a Girl with The Doctor

Gillian I. Leitch is an independent scholar and historical researcher and is currently co-chair of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area of the PCA. She lives in Ottawa, Ontario. Sherry Ginn is a retired educator currently living in North Carolina. She has authored books examining female characters on science fiction television series as well as the multiple television worlds of Joss Whedon. Edited collections have examined sex in science fiction, time travel, the apocalypse, and the award-winning series Farscape, Doctor Who, and Fringe.

Table of Contents
Preface—"Traveling" in the Time of Covid: Tenacious, Addlepated, Rumbustical, Daunting, Insuperable, Stupefying
Sherry Ginn and Gillian I. Leitch
Introduction—Boldly Going Where No Doctor Had Gone Before … Until Thirteen
Sherry Ginn and Gillian I. Leitch
Who Says the Doctor Ever Had a Penis?
Caroline-Isabelle Caron
"Come on, Ace! We've got work to do": The Development of the Modern Companion on Doctor
Michael G. Robinson
Femininity and Indigeneity: Leela in Doctor
Gillian I. Leitch
"Give me some of that ­Nitro-9 you're not carrying": Ace as an Intuitive ­Anarcha-Feminist in the Cartmel
Lynne M. Thomas
Reclaiming Her Agency: The Life and Times of Dr. Martha Jones
Sherry Ginn
"Is that really what we've learned today?" Revising Clara Oswald on Doctor
Heather M. McHale
The "Other" Women in the Whoniverse: The Social Significance of Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint, and Bill Potts
Lynnette Porter
Hope Persists: Overcoming Trauma as Thirteen, the Doctor of Hope
Pamela Achenbach
"Are you my mummy?" Mothering Monsters and the Contradictions of Motherhood in Doctor
Zara T. Wilkinson
Filmography
About the Contributors
Index