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27%OFFJulia Kristeva - Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape - 9780231178365 - V9780231178365
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Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape

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Description for Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 24 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; HPCF7; JFD; JFFE; JFFE2; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 454.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231178365
SKU
V9780231178365
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About Julia Kristeva
Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Her many books include Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media (2007), Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human (2009), Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films (2012), and Earth and World: Philosophy After the Apollo Missions (2015). ... Read more

Reviews for Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape
Kelly Oliver's brilliant analysis of how young girls' path to womanhood is filled with beating, battery, abuse, and sexual assault is shocking and timely. Oliver's meticulously researched volume moves back and forth between myths and fairy tales linked to rape, contemporary films, television shows and ads featuring violence to girls, along with studying rape culture, and ambiguities of 'consent,' on ... Read more

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