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Title:

Local violence, global media : feminist analyses of gendered representations / edited by Lisa M. Cuklanz & Sujata Moorti.

Publisher:

Peter Lang,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

viii, 276 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Women--Crimes against.
Rape in mass media.
Sex in mass media.
Violence in mass media.
Feminist theory.

Other Authors:

Cuklanz, Lisa M.
Moorti, Sujata, 1963-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : tracking global media and local activism / Sujata Moorti and Lisa Cuklanz -- Serial prostitute homicide in the Chinese media / Elaine Jeffreys -- Ripped from the headlines : newspaper depictions of battered women in Peru / M. Cristina Alcalde -- The politics of rape and honor in Pakistan / Sidra Fatima Minhas -- Media coverage of the murder of U.S. transwomen of color / Gordene MacKenzie and Mary Marcel -- Invisible women : Chinese media responses to the Japanese "orgy" / Peter C. Pugsley and Jia Gao -- The sacrifice of a schoolgirl : the 1995 rape case, discourses of power, and women's lives in Okinawa / Linda Isako Angst -- Media constructions of ethnicized masculinity in South Africa / Pamela Scully -- Gendered narratives of child sexual abuse in fiction film / Karen Boyle -- Exposing domestic violence in country music videos / Julie Haynes -- Mediated violence and women's activism in Serbia / Danica Minic -- Beneath the layers of violence : representations of rape and the Rwandan genocide / Régine Michelle Jean-Charles.

Series:

Intersections in communications and culture, 1528-610X ; v. 23

ISBN:

1433102773 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781433102776 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1433102765 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781433102769 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2008043861

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)