The Routledge companion to gender, media and violence / edited by Karen Boyle and Susan Berridge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boyle, Karen, 1972- editor.

Berridge, Susan, editor.

Series:

Routledge companions to gender.

Routledge Companions to Gender Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism and mass media.

Sex role in mass media.

Violence--Sex differences.

Violence.

Violence in mass media.

Women--Violence against.

Women.

Women in mass media.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1003 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"With heated discussion around Metoo, journalistic reporting on domestic violence, and the popularity of true crime documentary, gendered media discourse around violence and harassment has never been more prominent. The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media, and Violence is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this important subject and is the first collection on media and violence to take a gendered approach. Comprising over 50 chapters by a team of diverse, interdisciplinary and international contributors, the book is structured around the following parts: News, Representing Reality, Gender-based Violence Online, Feminist Responses Through these sections a huge range of topics is covered, including: whiteness and gender-based violence, media narratives of domestic abuse during COVID-19, Black Masculinity and domestic violence in the news, media framing of sexual violence against LGBTQ people, human rights documentary and feminism, gender and violence in true crime podcasts, rape and pornography, online misogyny, feminism as 'bias', working towards responsible reporting, using trigger warnings, digital feminist activism. The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media and Violence is essential reading for students and researchers in Gender Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, and Criminology"-- Provided by publisher.

"With heated discussion around Metoo, journalistic reporting on domestic violence, and the popularity of true crime documentary, gendered media discourse around violence and harassment has never been more prominent. The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media, and Violence is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this important subject and is the first collection on media and violence to take a gendered approach. Comprising over 50 chapters by a team of diverse, interdisciplinary and international contributors, the book is structured around the following parts: News, Representing Reality, Gender-based Violence Online, Feminist Responses Through these sections a huge range of topics is covered, including: whiteness and gender-based violence, media narratives of domestic abuse during COVID-19, Black Masculinity and domestic violence in the news, media framing of sexual violence against LGBTQ people, human rights documentary and feminism, gender and violence in true crime podcasts, rape and pornography, online misogyny, feminism as 'bias', working towards responsible reporting, using trigger warnings, digital feminist activism. The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media and Violence is essential reading for students and researchers in Gender Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, and Criminology"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Figures and tables

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Thinking about gender, violence and the media in a pandemic

What's in a name?

Continuum thinking

Organisation of the collection

Coda: Representing violence ethically in academic work

Note

References

Part 1: News

News: Introduction to Part 1

Notes

1. "Sensational spikes" and "isolated incidents": Examining the misrepresentation of domestic abuse by the media using the case studies of football and Covid-19

Background

Media and domestic abuse

Media frames and narratives

Case study 1: Domestic abuse and football

Domestic abuse, femicides and Covid-19

Conclusions

2. The media and male victim-survivors of domestic abuse

Male victim-survivors don't exist

Domestic abuse is not harmful to men

Domestic abuse is worse for men

Women are not capable of violence and abuse

There are equal numbers of male victim-survivors to women

All male victims are abused by women

The role of the media

Sympathy and sexualisation in portrayals of perpetrators

Creating a hierarchy of domestic abuse

Who are seen as the experts?

Has there been progress?

Conclusion

3. Invisible feelings, anti-Asian violences and abolition feminisms

Invisible feelings and the visibility of violence against Asian women

Politicising Asian American women as victims

Dangerous and endangered positions

Conclusion: Abolition feminisms

4. Towards a fair justice system in Canada: Women and girls homicide database project

Context and methods

General characteristics

Key findings

Future directions.

Conclusion

5. Familicide, gender and "mental illness": Beyond false dualisms

Reading complex violences

Constructing dualisms

Some roots to the polarity

The motivations and context of familicide

Gendering distress among perpetrators of familicide

Gendering the mobilisation of distress by familicide perpetrators

6. Femminicidio in Italian televised news: A case study of La Vita in Diretta

Understanding femminicidio

Methodology

The linguistic framing of femminicidio in La Vita in Diretta

7. Cruel benevolence: Vulnerable menaces, menacing vulnerabilities and the white male vigilante trope

Macho men, media and the emasculated state

Three "ordinary blokes", two weeping women

Vulnerable menaces

Deresponsibilisation

Disempowerment

Discourses of service and sacrifice

Menacing vulnerabilities

Cruel benevolence

8. Exploring US news media portrayals of girls' violence in the 1980s and 1990s: The emergence of a moral panic

The current study

News coverage selection

Analysis

Findings

The panic surrounding the discovery of girls in gangs

The panic surrounding the discovery of girls' gratuitous violence

Discussion

9. Child sexual exploitation and scapegoating minority communities

Grooming and sexual exploitation

Race, gender, crime and moral panics in the UK

The portrayal of victims

Constructing child sexual exploitation as a cultural problem

10. Hidden or hypervisible? Mapping the making of a moral panic over female genital mutilation/cutting

Savages and saviours

Tip of the iceberg?

Making of the moral panic on FGM/C in the UK.

Femonationalism in the UK anti FGM/C discourse

11. Examining the Zimbabwean news media's framing of men as victims of sexual assault

News media's framing of sexual assault in Zimbabwe and beyond

Men as victims of sexual assault

Discrediting the narratives of male victims of sexual assault

Sensationalising male sexual abuse

Humanising female perpetrators

12. The HIV man, Alexandra man and Hotboy: Swedish news coverage of rape as a folklore of fear

The HIV man

The Alexandra man

Hotboy

13. Forward and backwards: Sexual violence in Portuguese news media

Sexual violence in Portugal: Law, media training and media coverage

The Casa Pia case

The Telheiras case

The Gaia case

The Mayorga/Ronaldo case

Final remarks

14. Representations of gender-based violence against children in Nigeria

Discussion of findings

15. Media, courts and "#RiceBunny" testimonies in China

#RiceBunny in court

Censorship, professional codes and interpersonal networks

Disinformation becomes a weapon for the accused

Nonfiction platforms: fragile but important

Citizen media: report to change

16. Journalism, sexual violence and social responsibility

Bad" journalism from good people

Guidelines and codes of conduct

Journalistic doxa and habitus: direction, experience, and principles

Journalistic deontology and sexual violence

Part 2: Representing reality

Representing reality: Introduction to Part 2

References.

17. The politics of the traumatised voice: Communicative injustice and structural silencing in contemporary media culture

Histories of communicative injustice: from ducking stools to doxxing

#MeToo, trauma narratives and "wounded identity

Trauma and contemporary media culture

AOC, Hannah Gadsby and the "weaponisation" of trauma

18. Public survivors: The burdens and possibilities of speaking as a survivor

Going public: the emergence of the public survivor

The burdens of public survivors

The limits of public recognition

Conclusion: public survivors and social change

19. Telling an authentic, relatable #MeToo story on YouTube

Recognising and not recognising sexual violence when it happens

Reasons for not reporting. How institutions, communities, and families respond

Current more correct understanding of sexual violence

The post-feminist hero's journey

Silences

20. Mental images and emotive voices in true crime podcasts focused on female victims

Sensationalised (mental) images

Emotive voices

Concluding remarks

21. Sexual violence and social justice: The celebrity #MeToo documentary in the US

Feminist true crime

#MeToo monsters

Intersectional #MeToo

Conclusion: activating change

22. Remediating the "Yorkshire Ripper" event in the era of feminist true crime

23. Class, victim credibility and the Pygmalion problem in real crime dramas Three Girls and Unbelieveable

Three Girls (2017) and Unbelievable (2019): some parallels

The class politics of credibility

Victim hierarchies: narratives of fallen women

Doing away with Pygmalion

24. Victimhood and violence: Weaponising white femininity in South Africa

Weaponising white women

Farm murders" and GBV

Weaponising whiteness

25. Pregnant and disappeared: The Missing White Woman Syndrome in magazines

The analytical origins of the Missing White Woman Syndrome

Magazines and the celebrification of missing white women

Erin Corwin is "Pregnant and Missing

26. Discourses and narratives of gender-based violence in Greek women's magazines

Belonging and exclusion

The "women-ology" repertoire

The "dynamics of exclusion" repertoire

27. Just a fantasy: How the discourse of fantasy attempts to resolve the conflicts of porn consumption

Methods and sample

Troubling the line

The conflicts of porn

The discursive function of fantasy

28. Patriarchal protectors of the national body: Violence, masculinity and gendered constructions of the US/Mexico border

Imagining, constructing and policing the US/Mexico border

Masculinity, vigilantes and state agents on the US/Mexico border

The savage Other

The vulnerable woman and child

The patriarchal protector

29. Militarised masculinity and the perpetration of violence in Chilean documentary

Ulysses's Odyssey by Lorena Manríquez

El pacto de Adriana/Adriana's Pact

De-normalising the continuum of violence

30. Women's activist filmmaking against gendered violence in Pakistan

Swara: A Bridge Over Troubled Waters ()

The activist films of Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Acknowledgement

Part 3: Gender-based violence online.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781003200871

9781000919356

1-00-320087-7

1-000-91935-8

1-003-20087-7

1-000-91934-X

OCLC:

1395181462