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Hunting Girls - Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape (Hardcover)
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Hunting Girls - Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape (Hardcover)
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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.
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