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Titolo: | Women, violence, and the media [[electronic resource] ] : readings in feminist criminology / / edited by Drew Humphries |
Pubblicazione: | Boston, : Northeastern University Press |
Hanover [NH], : Published by University Press of New England, c2009 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.88082 |
Soggetto topico: | Women - Crimes against |
Violence in women | |
Rape in mass media | |
Sex in mass media | |
Violence in mass media | |
Feminist theory | |
Altri autori: | HumphriesDrew |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Women, violence, and the media |
ISBN: | 1-282-47279-8 |
9786612472794 | |
1-55553-718-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910815372803321 |
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