Format:
1 online resource (227 pages)
ISBN:
9781555537180
Series Statement:
Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law
Content:
Provocative collection of essays designed to give students an understanding of media representations of women's experience of violence and to educate a new generation to recognize and critique media images of women.
Content:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Toward a Framework for Integrating Women, Violence, and the Media -- Part I: Gendered Constructions: Women and Violence -- 1. Words that Wound: Print Media's Presentation of Gendered Violence: Michelle L. Meloy and Susan L. Miller -- 2. Constructing Murderers: Female Killers of Law and Order: Drew Humphries -- 3. Screening Stereotypes: African American Women in Hollywood Films: Frankie Y. Bailey -- 4. What about Women? The Representation of Women in Media, Crime, and Violence Textbooks: Zoann K. Snyder -- Part II: Debating the Issues: Femicide and Sexual Terrorism -- 5. Does Gender Make a Difference? The Influence of Female Victimization on Media Coverage of Mass Murder Incidents: Janice E. Clifford, Carl J. Jensen III, and Thomas A. Petee -- 6. Rapist Freed, Victim Punished: Newspaper Accounts of Violence against Women in Bangladesh: Mahfuzul I. Khondaker and Melissa H. Barlow -- 7. Media Images of Wartime Sexual Violence: Ethnic Cleansing in Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia: Yaschica Williams and Janine Bower -- 8. The Haunting of Jane Tennison: Investigating Violence against Women in Prime Suspect: Madelaine Adelman, Gray Cavender, and Nancy C. Jurik -- Part III: Changing the Image: Feminist Critics and Criticism -- 9. Victims and Sources: Newspaper Reports of Mass Murder in Domestic Contexts: John W. Heeren and Jill Theresa Messing -- 10 Running Out of Oxygen: Is "Television for Women" Suffocating Women?: Emily Lenning and Darrin Kowitz -- 11. Making Sense of a Female Malady: Fear of Crime, Hysteria, and Women Watching Crimewatch UK: Deborah Jermyn -- 12. Victim Blaming through High-Profile Crimes: An Analysis of Unintended Consequences: Lynn S. Chancer -- Selected Readings -- Contributors.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781555537029
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781555537029
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
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