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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458678003321

Autore

Gronnvoll Marita

Titolo

Media representations of gender and torture post-9/11 / / Marita Gronnvoll

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-95000-1

1-136-95001-X

1-282-62909-3

9786612629099

0-203-84867-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication ; ; 4

Disciplina

070.4/49399

Soggetti

Torture in mass media

Women soldiers in mass media

Sex role in mass media

Mass media - United States

Torture - Moral and ethical aspects - United States

Torture - Government policy - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Interrogating Torture; 2 Gender (In)Visibility at Abu Ghraib; 3 Sex, Blood, and Degradation: The Women of Gitmo; 4 Torture Television; 5 24: Reshaping the Messiah; 6 A Question of Torture; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this timely book, Gronnvoll offers a feminist rhetorical examination of gender and torture, looking at the media coverage of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, as well as recent popular entertainment television serials where torture appears as a plot device (including 24). In exposing news media coverage to such scrutiny, she finds that cases of American personnel engaging in torture achieved notoriety chiefly because of the fact that women were perpetrators. The language of



commentators suggests at least as much social outrage over the gender performance of the women as over the fact of tor