Title Hunting girls : sexual violence from the hunger games to campus rape / Kelly Oliver

Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 203 pages) : illustrations 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 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 constrict 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-193) and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Mass media and sex. Sex crimes Young women -- Sexual behavior Young women -- Violence against Sex in mass media. Sex role in mass media. Mass media and women. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Mass media and sex Mass media and women Sex crimes Sex in mass media Sex role in mass media Young women -- Sexual behavior Massenmedien Sexualverhalten Sexualdelikt Form Electronic book LC no. 2015046456 ISBN 9780231541763 0231541767

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