Hunting girls : sexual violence from The hunger games to campus rape / Kelly Oliver.
2016
P96.S45 O45 2016eb
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Title
Hunting girls : sexual violence from The hunger games to campus rape / Kelly Oliver.
Author
Oliver, Kelly, 1958- author.
ISBN
9780231541763 (electronic book)
0231541767 (electronic book)
9780231178365
0231178360
0231541767 (electronic book)
9780231178365
0231178360
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 203 pages) : illustrations
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P96.S45 O45 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.42
Summary
"Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games), Bella Swan (Twilight), Tris Prior (Divergent), and other strong and resourceful characters have decimated the fairytale archetype of the helpless girl waiting to be rescued. Giving as good as they get, these young women access reserves of aggression to liberate themselves--but who truly benefits? By meeting violence with violence, are women turning victimization into entertainment? Are they playing out old fantasies, institutionalizing their abuse? In Hunting Girls, Kelly Oliver examines popular culture's fixation on representing young women as predators and prey and the implication that violence--especially sexual violence--is an inevitable, perhaps even celebrated, part of a woman's maturity. In such films as Kick-Ass (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and Maleficent (2014), power, control, and danger drive the story, but traditional relationships of care bind the narrative, and even the protagonist's love interest adds to her suffering. To underscore the threat of these depictions, Oliver locates their manifestation of violent sex in the growing prevalence of campus rape, the valorization of woman's lack of consent, and the new urgency to implement affirmative consent apps and policies."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-193) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: girls as trophies
A princess is being beaten and raped
Rape as spectator sport and creepshot entertainment
Girls as predators and prey
Conclusion: the new Artemis, Title IX, and taking responsibility for sexual assault.
A princess is being beaten and raped
Rape as spectator sport and creepshot entertainment
Girls as predators and prey
Conclusion: the new Artemis, Title IX, and taking responsibility for sexual assault.