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Introduction 5  \n1.1 Gillian Flynn’s Novels as Contemporary Vehicles for Post  \nFeminist Perspectives 13  \n1.2 Gillian Flynn’s New Kind of Gender Trouble 27  \n2. Historical and Theoretical Parameters of the Feminist Movements 36  \n2.1 The First Wave: Claiming Equal Rights 37  \n2.2 The Second Wave: Claiming Freedom from Gender-Based Role  \nModels 39  \n2.3 The Third Wave: The Construction of Gender 42  \n2.4 “The Fourth Wave”: Hashtag Activism 45  \n2.5 Each Movement’s Influential Feminist Literature 47  \n2.5.1 Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century 48  \n2.5.2 Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique 55  \n2.5.3 Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble 68  \n3. Gender, Sex, Identity and Equality in Gillian Flynn’s Novels 78  \n4. Gone Girl: Gender-Based Identity Conflicts in a Typical American  \nMarriage 84  \n4.1 The Perception of the Characters’ Delusions in Gone Girl 87  \n4.1.1 Nick Dunne, the Failing American Husband 88  \n4.1.2 Amy Elliott Dunne’s Feminist Perspective on Marriage  \nand Power 96  \n4.2 The Setting as a Main Factor of the Characters’ Frustrations in  \nGone Girl 101  \n4.3 Media Influence on Preconceived Gender Roles 105  \n4.4 The Cool Girl as a Modern Concept of Phallocentrism and  \nMale Domination 111  \n5. Sharp Objects: Identity Conflicts due to Morbid Mother-Daughter  \nRelationships 124  \n5.1 Camille Preaker’s Self-Destruction as a Consequence of the  \nInability to Perform a Prescribed Femininity 128  \n5.2 Identity Conflicts Caused by the Violence of a  \nPsychopathic Mother in Sharp Objects 142  \n5.3 The Emotional and Psychological Effects of the Identity  \nConflicts on Amma Crellin 147  \n5.4 Feminist Symbols and Allusions in Sharp Objects 151  \n6. Gender-Based Expectations and Verbal Misunderstandings  \nin Dark Places 162  \n6.1 The Emotional Struggles of Libby Day 171  \n6.2 Diondra Wertzner as the Female Perpetrator in Dark Places 175  \n6.3 Constant Emasculation and the Inability to be Manly Enough 180  \n7. The Need to Live up to Gender Roles in The Grownup 184  \n8. The Duality of Sexism and Feminism: Female Violence as a  \nConsequence of a Consumer Society’s Preconceived Gender Roles 195  \n9. Gillian Flynn’s Post-Feminism: Amorality as a Prerequisite of  \nFemale Diversity 211  \n10. Conclusion 218  \n11. Works Cited 226  \nAcknowledgements  \nI would like to thank Professor Josef Raab for counseling me both in my previous studies and in writing this dissertation. I am grateful for his constant assistance and professional advice , and, most importantly, for his permanent encouragement. Without him I could not have finished this project.  \nI would also like to thank my colleagues and friends for their emotional support and help they have offered me.  \nLastly, I would like to express my gratitude to my parents for their endless support and motivation, and my brother for his advice. Certainly, without him I would neither have started nor finished this project.  \n1. Introduction  \n1985. Henderson County, Texas. The Sheriff’s Department issues a search warrant for a house and finds two male corpses on the property. 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