Kelly Oliver Hunting Girls (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Hunting GirlsCondition: NewEAN: 9780231178372ISBN: 9780231178372Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/17/2017Item Height: 210mmItem Length: 140mmAuthor: Kelly OliverLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus RapeISBN-10: 0231178379Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Films & TVTopic: Society & Culture, Gender Sex & Relationships, Philosophy & Spirituality, Social SciencesRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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