Hunting Girls Sexual Violence From the Hunger Games to Campus Rape

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.

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kelly Oliver
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.10.2017
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet
• EAN: 9780231178372
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17837-2
• Pages: 216
• Subjects: Popular Culture, Feminism, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sexual Abuse & Harassment, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, LAW / Gender & the Law, Sexual abuse & harassment, Feminism & feminist theory, Western philosophy from c 1800, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Violence in society, Sexual abuse and harassment, Feminism and feminist theory, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, deconstruction; feminism; violence in society