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207 affects, 6, 9–10, 12. See also audience responses to graphic violence aggression, women’s authentic, 163– 65. See also avengers; feminism: physical; vigilantism; violence against women; violent women allies, xiv, xvi; collective action, 74, 104; empowerment and effectiveness, 75; Hacker Republic, 104; and Lisbeth, 29–31, 59, 147– 48; men as, 11, 44–45; women as, 58–59, 161–62 ambiguity, xiv–xv; feminism and violence, 16; and gender, 30, 176; and gender identity, 53–61; morality, xv; paternalism and condescension, 83; structural change, xv; violence and popular culture, 28–29, 184–85; violence and victimization, 16, 17–18, 23– 24, 36–37, 40, 56–57, 184–85 ambivalence: analyzing popular culture, 3; and feminist bloggers, 184–85; and graphic depictions of violence against women, 3, 5–6, 12; about Lisbeth, 175–76; and masculinity, 81, 83; of physical feminism, 23–25 androgyny, 30, 53, 172, 183–84. See also ambiguity: and gender audience responses to graphic violence: distress, 4, 6, 8, 9–10, 12, 16–17, 28; engaged and active consumption, 190–91; enjoyment, 36; relating to women victims, 18, 28–29, 40–41, 56–57, 174, 184. See also ambivalence; violence against women avengers: Lisbeth as feminist avenger, 19, 23–25, 53, 56–57, 61, 92–93, 99, 171–72; Pippi Longstocking as playful avenger, 171. See also hacking: as tool of revenge Bechdel test, 160–61 blogs and blogging. See ambivalence; feminism; media body image: dissatisfaction with, 195, 197; loathing, 23. See also breast implants; women’s bodies breast implants, xv, 23, 54–55, 89–91, 140. See also women’s bodies Clover, Carol, 27–30, 198. See also films computer hacking. See hacking consensual corporatism, 125, 127–28. See also Sweden: Swedish model consent: as respect and care, 11; and sexual behavior, 11 control: and feminism, 20; hegemonic masculinity, 41–42; helplessness and loss of, 33–34; and men, 44; physical power as means of asserting, 20–21, 25, 56–57, 96; and violence against women, 21, 81; women as leaders in the workplace, 110–11, 113–14, 117–18; of women’s bodies, 21, 23–24, 25 crime fiction: contemporary Swedish, 135; feminism and, 136; genres, 135; Lisbeth’s uniqueness in, 142–43; manhood and masculinity, 146, 148; rape novels, 186–87; sexual behavior and sexuality, Index 208 Men Who Hate Women and Women Who Kick Their Asses crime fiction, continued 140–41, 162–63, 167; stereotypes of women, 136; women writers of, 4. See also women protagonists in crime fiction cyberspace: and gender inequality, 104–5; as tool of revenge, 27–30, 57–58, 60–61, 99–100; as tool of self-protection, 27–30, 98–100. See also control; hacking; surveillance ensamhet, 173 female body. See women’s bodies feminism: backlash against, 194–95; control, 20, 129; and crime fiction, 136; criticism of popular culture, 12, 33; cultural feminism, 24; equality, xvi; and hacking, 103–4; kill-joy, 12; Stieg Larsson as feminist, xiv–xv, xviii, 4, 39–40, 77–78, 184–86; limitations, 99, 105; physical, 20–21, 24–25; polysemous, 193; positive impact of, 4; postfeminism, 5, 73–74, 82, 129–30; postmodern feminism, 60; radical feminism, 58, 85; secondwave feminism, xvi, 55, 58–60, 73–74, 85; third-wave feminism, xvi, 53–61, 73–75, 83, 85; and violence, 16, 23–24, 198–99. See also Larsson, Stieg; women’s movement, positive impact of; women’s physical power films: final girl, 27–31; pornification of Lisbeth in film posters, xviii; Swedish adaptations of Larsson’s novels, xviii, 27–30, 90–91, 93–94, 159. See also Clover, Carol final girl. See films folkhemmet, 151. See also People’s Home Gabrielsson, Eva, xvii, 39–40, 77–78. See also Larsson, Stieg gender: brutality, 6, 12, 81, 195, 197– 98; doing gender, 75, 108, 113; play, 175; subversion, 25, 176–77, 179. See also ambiguity; gender equality; violence against women gender equality: as achieved, 5; and cyberspace, 104–5; and feminism, 99; and physical appearance, 89; power differentials among women, 23–24; and sexual behavior and sexuality, 70–71, 73–74; in Sweden, 109–10, 117–18, 126, 127; in the United States, 109; and the workplace, 109, 117–18, 129– 30. See also feminism; Sweden girl power, xvi, 177 global economy, Sweden and, 123. See also consensual corporatism; Sweden hacking: and feminism, 103–4; as tool of revenge, 27–30, 57–58, 60–61, 99–100; as tool of self-protection, 27–30, 98–100. See also cyberspace; surveillance...