CONTENTS Introduction Donna King and Carrie Lee Smith Misogyny and Mayhem Always Ambivalent: Why Media Is Never Just Entertainment Abby Ferber Kick-Ass Feminism: Violence, Resistance, and Feminist Avengers in Larsson's Trilogy Kristine De Welde Lisbeth Salander as the "Final Girl" in the Swedish "Girl Who" Films Karen Ritzenhoff Accounts of Violence against Women: The Potential of Realistic Fiction Roberta Villalon State Complicity in Men's Violence against Women Patricia Yancey Martin 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: Representations 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 Levy Swedish Perspectives Corporations, the Welfare State, and Covert Misogyny in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Anna Westerstahl 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? Sara Karrholm 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.