03192oam 2200745I 450 991081327270332120230725015236.01-136-95000-11-136-95001-X1-282-62909-397866126290990-203-84867-510.4324/9780203848678 (CKB)2560000000010072(EBL)534220(OCoLC)642661660(SSID)ssj0000422919(PQKBManifestationID)11271160(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000422919(PQKBWorkID)10439738(PQKB)10816440(MiAaPQ)EBC534220(Au-PeEL)EBL534220(CaPaEBR)ebr10394321(CaONFJC)MIL262909(OCoLC)645121414(EXLCZ)99256000000001007220180706d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMedia representations of gender and torture post-9/11 /Marita GronnvollNew York :Routledge,2010.1 online resource (187 p.)Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication ;4Description based upon print version of record.0-415-63421-0 0-415-87480-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexIn 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 torRoutledge studies in rhetoric and communication ;4.Torture in mass mediaWomen soldiers in mass mediaSex role in mass mediaMass mediaUnited StatesTortureMoral and ethical aspectsUnited StatesTortureGovernment policyUnited StatesTorture in mass media.Women soldiers in mass media.Sex role in mass media.Mass mediaTortureMoral and ethical aspectsTortureGovernment policy070.4/49399Gronnvoll Marita.1646564MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813272703321Media representations of gender and torture post-93993630UNINA