Format:
Book
Title:
Men who hate women and women who kick their asses : Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy in feminist perspective / edited by Donna King and Carrie Lee Smith.
Call Number:
839 Men
Publisher, Date:
Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, c2012.
Description:
xix, 211 p. ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Larsson, Stieg, 1954-2004 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Larsson, Stieg, 1954-2004 -- Themes, motives.
Misogyny in literature.
Violence in literature.
Women in literature.
Feminism in literature.
Social values in literature.
Violence in women in popular culture.
Other Author:
King, Donna Lee.
Smith, Carrie Lee, 1975-
Other Title:
Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy in feminist perspective
Contents:
pt. I. Misogyny and mayhem. Always ambivalent : Why media is never just entertainment / Abby L. Ferber -- Kick-ass feminism : Violence, resistance, and feminist avengers in Larsson's trilogy / Kristine De Welde -- Lisbeth Salander as "final girl" in the Swedish "Girl who" films / Karen A. Ritzenhoff -- Accounts of violence against women : The potential of realistic fiction / Roberta Villalón -- State complicity in men's violence against women / Patricia Yancey Martin -- pt. II. Gender and power in the new millennium. The gender ambiguity of Lisbeth Salander : Third-wave feminist hero? / Judith Lorber -- Third-wave rebels in a second-wave world : Polyamory, gender,. and power / Mimi Schippers -- Men who love women : Pro-feminist masculinities in the millennium trilogy / Michael Kimmel -- Tiny, tattooed, and tough as nails : Representation of Lisbeth Salander's body / Catherine (Kay) G. Valentine -- Hacker republic : Cyberspace and the feminist appropriation of technology / Sophie Statzel Bjork-James -- Is this what equality looks like? : Working women in the millennium trilogy / Diane E. Levy -- pt. III. Swedish perspectives. Corporations, the welfare state, and covert misogyny in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo / Anna Westerståhl Stenport and Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm -- Lisbeth Salander and her Swedish crime fiction "sisters" : Stieg Larsson's hero in a genre context / Kerstin Bergman -- Is Mikael Blomkvist the man of the millennium? : A Swedish perspective on masculinity and feminism in Larsson's millennium trilogy / Sara Kärrholm -- pt. IV. Readers' responses. An open letter to the next Stieg Larsson / LeeAnn Kriegh -- Pippi and Lisbeth : Fictional heroes across generations / Meika Loe -- Feminist bloggers kick Larsson's ass : Reading resistance online / Jessie Daniels -- Feminist avenger or male fantasy? : Reading the reception of the millennium trilogy / Caryn Murphy.
ISBN:
9780826518491 (alk. paper)
0826518494 (alk. paper)
9780826518507 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0826518508 (pbk. : alk. paper)