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Sep 8, 2011 | Location: Brooklyn, NY | Category: Events

Astraea-Sponored Event: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Brooklyn, NY, Oct 22, 2011—Astraea co-sponsors a panel discussion on October 22nd at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The panel investigates gender and stereotypes in Stieg Larsson’s The Millennium Trilogy. Artist Linda Stein moderates with presenters Michael Kimmel, Shelby Knox and Jimmie Briggs.

Salander/Blomkvist: Challenging Stereotypes

Produced by Have Art Will Travel: for Gender Justice, a project of Artist Linda Stein, this intergenerational panel will highlight the two main characters from Stieg Larsson’s The Millennium Trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest) and the subsequent Swedish movies based on these books.

Linda Stein will introduce the discussion with movie clips revealing how Salander and Blomkvist shake up stereotypic gender roles. The panelists will focus on current trends in gender fluidity as related to the attitude of young women today: Shelby Knox; a new prototype for masculinity: Michael Kimmel; men’s attitudes toward current sexual abuse allegations (Dominique Strauss-Kahn vs. the hotel housekeeper and policemen vs. the inebriated woman): Jimmie Briggs. A Q&A will follow.

Saturday, October 22nd

2 - 4 PM

Brooklyn Museum of Art [map]

200 Eastern Parkway

Brooklyn, NY

Free with museum admission. Limited seating. Please respond by email to HAWT@HaveArtWillTravel.org

Co-Sponsors:

ASTRAEA FOUNDATION
FEMINIST PRESS
FLOMENHAFT GALLERY
MAN UP CAMPAIGN
MEN CAN STOP RAPE
NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MEN AGAINST SEXISM
ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE
THE FEMINIST ART PROJECT
THIRD WAVE FOUNDATION
VOICE MALE MAGAZINE
WOMEN OF COLOR POLICY NETWORK
WOMEN’S ENEWS