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Afterword: Why are Strong Female Characters not Enough?

Katniss Everdeen and Lisbeth Salander, from Novel to Film

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The Politics of Panem

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The covers of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest) had caught my eye often during my many visits to the bookstore. But I always disregarded the novels as “popular” until something compelled me to consider the works further.

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Thomas, P.L. (2014). Afterword: Why are Strong Female Characters not Enough?. In: Connors, S.P. (eds) The Politics of Panem. Critical Literacy Teaching Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-806-0_14

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