Killing women : the visual culture of gender and violence / Annette Burfoot and Susan Lord, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lord, Susan, 1959-

Burfoot, Annette, 1958-

Series:

Cultural studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)

Cultural studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence in women.

Women--Violence against.

Women.

Women murderers in motion pictures.

Women--Crimes against--Social aspects.

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

Motion pictures.

Mass media--Social aspects.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfred Laurier University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays in Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence find important connections in the ways that women are portrayed in relation to violence, whether they are murder victims or killers. The book's extensive cultural contexts acknowledge and engage with contemporary theories and practices of identity politics and debates about the ethics and politics of representation itself. Does representation produce or reproduce the conditions of violence? Is representation itself a form of violence? This book adds significant new dimensions to the characterization of gender and

Contents:

History, memory, and mediations of murder. Mapping scripts and narratives of women who kill their husbands in Canada, 1866-1954: inscribing the everyday / Sylvie Frigon

Neither forgotten nor fully remembered: tracing an ambivalent public memory on the tenth anniversary of the Montreal Massacre / Sharon Rosenberg

Missing: on the politics of re/presentation / Zoey Élouard Michele

Killing the killers: women on death row in the United States / Kathleen O'Shea

"Dealing with the devil": Karla Homolka and the absence of feminist criticism / Belinda Morrissey. Techniques and technologies of representing violence. Pearls and gore: the spectacle of woman in life and death / Annette Burfoot

"I am awake in the place where women die": violent death in the art of Abigail Lane and Jenny Holzer / Lisa Coulthard

Women and murder in the televirtuality film / Jack Boozer

"I'm in there! I'm one of the women in that picture" / Margot Leigh Butler

Killing time: the violent imaginary of feminist media / Susan Lord. National trouble: gendered violence. Dario Argento's The bird with the crystal plumage: caging women's rage / Frank Burke

How positively levitating! Chinese heroines of Kung fu and Wuxia pian / Suzie S.F. Young

The madwomen in our movies: female psycho-killers in American horror cinema / Steven Jay Schneider

Reverence, rape

and then revenge: popular Hindi cinema's "women's film" / Jyotika Virdi

In the name of the nation: images of Palestinian and Israeli women fighters / Dorit Naaman.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-315) and index.

ISBN:

9786612501494

9781282501492

1282501496

9780889205307

0889205302

9781429429306

1429429305

OCLC:

753479471

Publisher Number:

9780889204973