Book Review: Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape by Kelly Oliver and Beyond Blurred Lines: Rape Culture in Popular Media by Nickie D. Phillips

In the past few decades, Young Adult literature has become progressively more popular. Film makers, Television, Fans, Critics and Academics all seem to have an inclination towards the Young Adult field. The present mankind genus is more engrossed in the literature contextualizing analysis of broader trends. However, while Young Adult persist to expand, it often materialize that the corpus of texts which is taught, studied, and critically examined overlap with texts discussed in the popular media; this has resulted in increasingly diminutive hyper canon of texts and is very often limited to the kinds of bestseller texts that make an enormous impact on popular traditions and ethnicity. To non-experts, the Young Adult class is often considered to be identical with huge blockbuster fiction titles like Harry Potter, The Fault in Our Stars, Twilight and The Hunger Games. The Young modern adult now seeks variant approaches with tangible trends in terms of theoretical importance, cultural significance, pedagogical value or amalgamation of all these approaches

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Kelly Oliver, Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0-231-17836-5

Hypatia Reviews Online ◽

10.1017/s2753906700002400 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2017 ◽

Author(s):

Debra Jackson

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Sexual Violence ◽

Columbia University ◽

Hunger Games ◽

The Hunger Games

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Teaching the Bible and Popular Media as Part of Contemporary Rape Culture

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190462673.013.28 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 423-439

Author(s):

Beatrice J. W. Lawrence

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

Sexual Assault ◽

Biblical Studies ◽

Popular Media ◽

Rape Culture ◽

Pedagogical Strategies ◽

The Bible ◽

Cultural Myths ◽

Biblical Texts

This essay explores pedagogical strategies for addressing rape culture in biblical studies courses, employing Genesis 34 and Judges 19–21 as primary texts. The first section discusses the nature of popular culture and its impact on gender. The following four sections highlight cultural myths about sexual assault by focusing on significant biblical texts and incorporating aspects of popular media to facilitate conversations about rape culture. The conclusion summarizes the main points and encourage further studies that combine the study of popular media and biblical texts. Overall, the essay contributes to the reading and teaching of the Bible within contemporary rape culture so that students become critical interpreters of biblical texts, as they become resistant readers of past and present rape culture.

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