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Women, violence, and the media [electronic resource] : readings in feminist criminology / edited by Drew Humphries.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Northeastern series on gender, crime, and law.
- The Northeastern series on gender, crime, and law
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Crimes against.
- Women.
- Violence in women.
- Rape in mass media.
- Sex in mass media.
- Violence in mass media.
- Feminist theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (298 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Northeastern University Press ; Hanover [NH] : Published by University Press of New England, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-47279-8
- 9786612472794
- 1-55553-718-9
- OCLC:
- 607838956
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