Local violence, global media
Subtitle: feminist analyses of gendered representations
By: edited by Lisa M. Cuklanz, Sujata Moorti.
Contributors: Cuklanz, Lisa M.; Moorti, Sujata, 1963-
Series: Intersections in communications and culture : global approaches and transdisciplinary perspectives -- v. 23
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781433102769; 9781433102776
Subjects: Women -- Crimes against; Rape in mass media; Sex in mass media; Violence in mass media; Feminist theory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: International perspectives on gendered violence in the media / by Sujata Moorti and Lisa Cuklanz; title: Gendered narratives of child sexual abuse / by Karen Boyle; title: The sacrifice of a schoolgirl : the 1995 rape case, discourses of power, and women's lives in Okinawa / by Linda Isako Angst; title: Gendered violence in South African media / by Pamela Scully; title: Ripped from the headlines : newspaper depictions of battered women and their (dis)connections to women's experiences in Peru / by Cristina Alcalde; title: The politics of rape and honor in Pakistan : a case study / by Sidra Fatima Minhas; title: Debating serial prostitute homicide in the Chinese media / by Elaine Jeffreys; title: Strategies for exposing domestic violence in country music videos / by Julie Haynes; title: Invisible women : Chinese media responses to the "Japanese orgy" in Zhuhai / by Peter Pugsley and Gao Jia; title: Mediated violence and women's activism in Serbia / by Danica Minic; title: From sensationalism to education : media coverage of the murder of transgender women of color 1995-2008 / by Gordene MacKenzie and Mary Marcel; title: Re-visioning familiar scripts : images of rape and the Rwandan genocide / by Regine Michelle Jean-Charles.