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News coverage of violence against women : engendering blame / Marian Meyers.
Van Pelt Library PN4784.C8 M49 1997
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LIBRA PN4784.C8 M49 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meyers, Marian, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime and the press.
- Women--Crimes against.
- Women.
- Women--Press coverage.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 148 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1997]
- Summary:
- Marian Meyers explores evidence that shows that news coverage in North American cities routinely depicts criminal violence against females differently from the way it depicts violence against males. She argues that this serves to perpetuate traditional, inegalitarian gender stereotyping.
- Using original research and qualitative textual analysis, the author discloses the underlying ideology, myths and assumptions within news coverage, and points out the ways in which news broadcasting affects how we view the world and our lives. Meyers advocates a re-examination of crime news from a feminist perspective and a broadening of traditional understandings of the social construction of news to include issues of gender, race and clas
- Contents:
- News, violence, and women
- News and the mythology of anti-woman violence
- The murder of a battered woman
- Good girls, bad girls, and TV news
- News of self-defense
- "Unusualness" and crime news
- Reforming the news
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-140) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0803956355
- 0803956363
- OCLC:
- 35114947
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