1.Introduction: Gender Vulnerability And Resistance.- 2. Growing Resilient Against Adversity: Victims Of Abuse In Irish Magdalene Laundries.- 3. Violence, Vulnerability And Resistance In Room By Emma Donoghue.- 4. Of Mice And Women: Gendered And Speciesist Violence In Joyce Carol Oates's Martyrdom Fiction".- 5. 'Nobody Kills A Priest': Vulnerability, Crime Fiction And Irish Social Resistance In Benjamin Black's Holy Orders.- 6. Refugees' Situated Vulnerability And Resistance In The Crime Fiction Of Ausma Zehanat Khan.- 7. Detection, Violence And The TV Series: Atkinson's Jackson Brodie In The BBC.- 8. Resisting Binaries: Vulnerability And Agency Through A Feminist Critical Gaze.- 9. Trans- National Neo- Victorianism: Vulnerability And Gender Resistance In Kate Grenville's The Secret River (2006).- 10. The Vulnerable Posthuman In Popular Science Fiction Cinema.- 11. Trans* Vulnerability And Resistance: The Case Of Pose (Season 1).- 12. Vulnerability And Resilience In The Dystopian Fiction Of Manjula Padmanabhan.