Women, violence, and the media : readings in feminist criminology

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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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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Humphries, Drew
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Hanover [NH] : Northeastern University Press ; Published by University Press of New England, 2009
Series:Northeastern series on gender, crime, and law.
Subjects:
Women > Crimes against.
Violence in women.
Rape in mass media.
Sex in mass media.
Violence in mass media.
Feminist theory.
Crime Victims
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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