Media representations of gender and torture post-9/11 / Marita Gronnvoll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gronnvoll, Marita, author.

Series:

Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication ; 4.

Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Torture in mass media.

Women soldiers in mass media.

Sex role in mass media.

Mass media--United States.

Mass media.

Torture--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Torture.

Torture--Government policy--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this timely book, Gronnvoll offers a feminist rhetorical examination of gender and torture, looking at the media coverage of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, as well as recent popular entertainment television serials where torture appears as a plot device (including 24). In exposing news media coverage to such scrutiny, she finds that cases of American personnel engaging in torture achieved notoriety chiefly because of the fact that women were perpetrators. The language of commentators suggests at least as much social outrage over the gender performance of the women as over the fact of tor

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Interrogating Torture; 2 Gender (In)Visibility at Abu Ghraib; 3 Sex, Blood, and Degradation: The Women of Gitmo; 4 Torture Television; 5 24: Reshaping the Messiah; 6 A Question of Torture; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-95000-1

1-136-95001-X

1-282-62909-3

9786612629099

0-203-84867-5

9780203848678

OCLC:

642661660