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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 part of a woman's maturity. She discusses campus rape, the valorization of woman's lack of consent, and the new urgency to implement affirmative consent policies.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Girls as Trophies
1. A Princess Is Being Beaten and Raped
2. Rape as Spectator Sport and Creepshot Entertainment
3. Girls as Predators and Prey
Conclusion: The New Artemis, Title IX, and Taking Responsibility for Sexual Assault
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
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).
Zusammenfassung
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 part of a woman's maturity. She discusses campus rape, the valorization of woman's lack of consent, and the new urgency to implement affirmative consent policies.
