Women, Violence, and the Media [electronic resource] : Readings in Feminist Criminology / edited by Drew Humphries
- Published:
- Boston : Northeastern University Press ; Hanover [NH] : Published by University Press of New England, c2009. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 279 p. )
- Additional Creators:
- Humphries, Drew
Project Muse - Access Online:
- serialssolutions.com
- Series:
- The Northeastern series on gender, crime, and law
- Restrictions on Access:
- License restrictions may limit access.
- 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.
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- ISBN:
- 9781555537180
1555537189
9781555537036 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1555537030 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781555537029 (print) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references.
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