Men Who Hate Women and Women Who Kick Their Asses: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective
Stieg Larsson was an unabashed feminist in his personal and professional life and in the fictional world he created, but The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest are full of graphic depictions of violence against women, including stalking, sexual harassment, child abuse, rape, incest, serial murder, sexual slavery, and sex trafficking, committed by vile individual men and by corrupt, secretive institutions. How do readers and moviegoers react to these depictions, and what do they make of the women who fight back, the complex masculinities in the trilogy, and the ambiguous gender of the elusive Lisbeth Salander?

These lively and accessible essays expand the conversation in the blogosphere about the novels and films by connecting the controversies about gender roles to social trends in the real world.

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Men Who Hate Women and Women Who Kick Their Asses: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective
Stieg Larsson was an unabashed feminist in his personal and professional life and in the fictional world he created, but The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest are full of graphic depictions of violence against women, including stalking, sexual harassment, child abuse, rape, incest, serial murder, sexual slavery, and sex trafficking, committed by vile individual men and by corrupt, secretive institutions. How do readers and moviegoers react to these depictions, and what do they make of the women who fight back, the complex masculinities in the trilogy, and the ambiguous gender of the elusive Lisbeth Salander?

These lively and accessible essays expand the conversation in the blogosphere about the novels and films by connecting the controversies about gender roles to social trends in the real world.

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Men Who Hate Women and Women Who Kick Their Asses: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective

Men Who Hate Women and Women Who Kick Their Asses: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective

Men Who Hate Women and Women Who Kick Their Asses: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective
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Men Who Hate Women and Women Who Kick Their Asses: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective

Men Who Hate Women and Women Who Kick Their Asses: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective

Overview

Stieg Larsson was an unabashed feminist in his personal and professional life and in the fictional world he created, but The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest are full of graphic depictions of violence against women, including stalking, sexual harassment, child abuse, rape, incest, serial murder, sexual slavery, and sex trafficking, committed by vile individual men and by corrupt, secretive institutions. How do readers and moviegoers react to these depictions, and what do they make of the women who fight back, the complex masculinities in the trilogy, and the ambiguous gender of the elusive Lisbeth Salander?

These lively and accessible essays expand the conversation in the blogosphere about the novels and films by connecting the controversies about gender roles to social trends in the real world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826503350
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Publication date: 04/30/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
File size: 733 KB

About the Author

Carrie Lee Smith is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Millersville University of Pennsylvania.

Donna King, Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, is author of Doing Their Share to Save the Planet: Children and Environmental Crisis and coeditor of Men Who Hate Women and Women Who Kick Their Asses: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective (also published by Vanderbilt).

Table of Contents

Cover Title Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction I. Misogyny and Mayhem 1. Always Ambivalent: Why Media Is Never Just Entertainment 2. Kick-Ass Feminism: Violence, Resistance, and Feminist Avengers in Larsson's Trilogy 3. Lisbeth Salander as "Final Girl" in the Swedish "Girl Who" Films 4. Accounts of Violence against Women: The Potential of Realistic Fiction 5. State Complicity in Men's Violence against Women II. Gender and Power in the New Millennium 6. The Gender Ambiguity of Lisbeth Salander: Third-Wave Feminist Hero? 7. Third-Wave Rebels in a Second-Wave World: Polyamory, Gender, and Power 8. Men Who Love Women: Pro-feminist Masculinities in the Millennium Trilogy 9. Tiny, Tattooed, and Tough as Nails: Representations of Lisbeth Salander's Body 10. Hacker Republic: Cyberspace and the Feminist Appropriation of Technology 11. Is This What Equality Looks Like?: Working Women in the Millennium Trilogy III. Swedish Perspectives 12. Corporations, the Welfare State, and Covert Misogyny in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 13. Lisbeth Salander and Her Swedish Crime Fiction "Sisters": Stieg Larsson's Hero in a Genre Context 14. Is Mikael Blomkvist the Man of the Millennium?: A Swedish Perspective on Masculinity and Feminism in Larsson's Millennium Trilogy IV. Readers' Responses 15. An Open Letter to the Next Stieg Larsson 16. Pippi and Lisbeth: Fictional Heroes across Generations 17. Feminist Bloggers Kick Larsson's Ass: Reading Resistance Online 18. Feminist Avenger or Male Fantasy?: Reading the Reception of the Millennium Trilogy Contributors Index
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