Local Violence, Global Media Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations

Name: Local Violence, Global Media Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations
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ISBN: 9781433102769

ISBN-10: 1433102765

ISBN-13: 9781433102769

Edition: 2009

Authors: Lisa M. Cuklanz, Sujata Moorti

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While there exists a wide range of material covering violence against women, very little scholarly attention has been paid to international media treatments of gendered violence. This volume addresses the gap by providing a broad overview of contemporary representations of gendered violence, enabling comparison and contrast in forms of violence and constructions of gender across a wide range of political and geographic contexts. From nonfictional accounts of the mass rapes during the Rwandan genocide to the sexual objectification of women in Serbian media and depictions of prostitute murders in the Chinese media, this book provides an overview of media representations of gendered violence…

Book details

List price: $48.90
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers
Publication date: 1/13/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 278
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.06" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Lisa M. Cuklanz is Chair of the Department of Communication at Boston College, US, and is the co-editor of Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations (2009) with Sujata Moorti, author of Rape on Prime Time: Television, Masculinity, and Sexual Violence ( 2000), and Rape on Trial: How the Mass Media Construct Legal Reform and Social Change (1996).