Gender and interpersonal violence : language, action and representation / edited by Karen Throsby, Flora Alexander.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Throsby, Karen, 1968-

Alexander, Flora

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Victims of family violence.

Victims of violent crimes.

Sex role.

Violence in mass media.

Physical Description:

x, 240 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

Drawing on contemporary research from across the social sciences and the humanities, including contributions from sociology, history, psychology, film studies and media studies, this edited collection illustrates the ways in which forms of interpersonal violence, and its gendering, are conceptualized, interpreted, resisted and embraced in different contexts and disciplines. Further, it explores the role of language in facilitating and constraining the 'speakability' of interpersonal violence, showing how these forms of violence have become unspeakable-excluding and silencing those experiencing violence. By examining both lived experiences of violence and representations of violence this collection highlights the need for new ways to articulate and conceptualize gendered interpersonal violence in all its manifestations.

Contents:

Part I Lived Experience

1 Turning a Pretty Girl into a Killer': Women, Violence and Clandestine Operations during the Second World War / Juliette Pattinson 11

2 'I Still Sort of Flounder Around in a Sea of Non-Language': The Constraints of Language and Labels in Women's Accounts of Woman-to-Woman Partner Abuse / Rebecca Barnes 29

3 Cultural Transformations and Gender Violence: South Asian Women's Experiences of Sexual Violence and Familial Dynamics / Bipasha Ahmed, Paula Reavey, Anamika Majumdar 44

4 Sexual Trafficking: A New Sexual Story? / Alison Jobe 66

5 'That's a Bit Drastic': Risk and Blame in Accounts of Obesity Surgery / Karen Throsby 83

6 The Promise of Understanding: Sex, Violence, Trauma and the Body / Jane Kilby 100

Part II Representations

7 'It's Wrong for a Boy to Hit a Girl Because the Girl Might Cry': Investigating Primary School Children's Attitudes Towards Violence Against Women / Nancy Lombard 121

8 Images of Abusers: Stranger-Danger, the Media, and the Social Currency of Everyday Knowledge / Jenny Kitzinger 139

9 Female-On-Male Violence: Medical Responses and Popular Imagination / Jarmila Mildorf 157

10 Male-On-Male Violence Against Women: Gender Representation and Violence in Rebecca Prichard's Fair Game / Richard A. Bryan 171

11 'He Could See Her No Longer': The Negation of Femininity Through Violence in Ian McEwan's Fiction / Fiona Tolan 186

12 Thelma and Louise and the Politics of Excess / Alex Tate 200

13 Slap and Tickle: Violence as Fun in the Movies / Jenny O'Connor 214.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

ISBN:

9780230574014

0230574017

OCLC:

234175925