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UNINA9910815372803321 |
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Titolo |
Women, violence, and the media [[electronic resource] ] : readings in feminist criminology / / edited by Drew Humphries |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Boston, : Northeastern University Press |
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Hanover [NH], : Published by University Press of New England, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-47279-8 |
9786612472794 |
1-55553-718-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (298 p.) |
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Collana |
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The Northeastern series on gender, crime, and law |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women - Crimes against |
Violence in women |
Rape in mass media |
Sex in mass media |
Violence in mass media |
Feminist theory |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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