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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791454103321

Titolo

Women, violence, and the media [[electronic resource] ] : readings in feminist criminology / / edited by Drew Humphries

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Northeastern University Press

Hanover [NH], : Published by University Press of New England, c2009

ISBN

1-282-47279-8

9786612472794

1-55553-718-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Collana

The Northeastern series on gender, crime, and law

Altri autori (Persone)

HumphriesDrew

Disciplina

362.88082

Soggetti

Women - Crimes against

Violence in women

Rape in mass media

Sex in mass media

Violence in mass media

Feminist theory

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.

Nota di contenuto

Words that wound : print media's presentation of gendered violence / Michelle L. Meloy and Susan L. Miller -- Constructing murderers : female killers of Law and order / Drew Humphries -- Screening stereotypes : African American women in Hollywood films / Frankie Y. Bailey -- What about women? The representation of women in media, crime, and violence textbooks / Zoann K. Snyder -- 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 -- Rapist freed, victim punished : newspaper accounts of violence against women in Bangladesh / Mahfuzul I. Khondaker and Melissa H. Barlow -- Media images of wartime sexual violence : ethnic cleansing in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia / Yaschica Williams and Janine Bower -- The haunting of Jane Tennison : investigating violence against women in Prime suspect / Madelaine Adelman, Gray Cavender, and Nancy C. Jurik -- Victims and sources : newspaper reports of mass



murder in domestic contexts / John W. Heeren and Jill Theresa Messing -- Running out of oxygen : is "television for women" suffocating women? / Emily Lenning and Darrin Kowitz -- Making sense of a female malady : fear of crime, hysteria, and women watching Crimewatch UK / Deborah Jermyn -- Victim blaming through high-profile crimes : an analysis of unintended consequences / Lynn S. Chancer.

Sommario/riassunto

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