Men Who Hate Women: Analyzing the Phenomenon of the Serial Killer

In Stieg Larsson’s 2005 bestselling thriller, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, journalist Mikael Blomkvist and freelance hacker/researcher Lisbeth Salander investigate the cold-case murders of dozens of women that took place over a 40-year period in Sweden, ultimately uncovering a serial killer who’s crimes extend to the modern day. Despite having seen David Fincher’s 2011 adaptation some years before, I was riveted by this book. It left me feeling dissatisfied with every piece of serial killer media I had consumed before it, but it took some research to understand why. What I learned is that popular culture’s understanding of the serial killer is deeply a-historic and a-cultural, presenting the serial killer’s appearance as a random, inevitable, and ultimately unpredictable event, untied to social contexts. Academic research (and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) tells us the opposite: we need to understand serial killers as direct manifestations of the systems we live under. <a href="https://medium.com/@nlal.lal/men-who-hate-women-analyzing-the-phenomenon-of-the-serial-killer-b1d7e12456c7">Visit Now</a>