The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media and Violence.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boyle, Karen.
Other Authors: Berridge, Susan.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Routledge Companions to Gender Series
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Table of 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
  • References
  • 1. "Sensational spikes" and "isolated incidents": Examining the misrepresentation of domestic abuse by the media using the case studies of football and Covid-19
  • Introduction
  • Background
  • Media and domestic abuse
  • Media frames and narratives
  • Case study 1: Domestic abuse and football
  • Domestic abuse, femicides and Covid-19
  • Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note
  • References
  • 2. The media and male victim-survivors of domestic abuse
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • References
  • 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
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
  • 4. Towards a fair justice system in Canada: Women and girls homicide database project
  • Context and methods
  • General characteristics
  • Key findings
  • Future directions.
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 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
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 6. Femminicidio in Italian televised news: A case study of La Vita in Diretta
  • Introduction
  • Understanding femminicidio
  • Methodology
  • The linguistic framing of femminicidio in La Vita in Diretta
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • 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
  • Conclusion
  • Note
  • References
  • 8. Exploring US news media portrayals of girls' violence in the 1980s and 1990s: The emergence of a moral panic
  • The current study
  • Methodology
  • News coverage selection
  • Analysis
  • Findings
  • The panic surrounding the discovery of girls in gangs
  • The panic surrounding the discovery of girls' gratuitous violence
  • Discussion
  • References
  • 9. Child sexual exploitation and scapegoating minority communities
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 10. Hidden or hypervisible? Mapping the making of a moral panic over female genital mutilation/cutting
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 11. Examining the Zimbabwean news media's framing of men as victims of sexual assault
  • Introduction
  • News media's framing of sexual assault in Zimbabwe and beyond
  • Men as victims of sexual assault
  • Methodology
  • Discrediting the narratives of male victims of sexual assault
  • Sensationalising male sexual abuse
  • Humanising female perpetrators
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 12. The HIV man, Alexandra man and Hotboy: Swedish news coverage of rape as a folklore of fear
  • Introduction
  • The HIV man
  • The Alexandra man
  • Hotboy
  • Discussion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 13. Forward and backwards: Sexual violence in Portuguese news media
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Notes
  • References
  • 14. Representations of gender-based violence against children in Nigeria
  • Introduction
  • Methodology
  • Discussion of findings
  • Conclusion
  • Note
  • References
  • 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
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 16. Journalism, sexual violence and social responsibility
  • Introduction
  • Bad" journalism from good people
  • Guidelines and codes of conduct
  • Journalistic doxa and habitus: direction, experience, and principles
  • Journalistic deontology and sexual violence
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 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
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 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
  • References
  • 19. Telling an authentic, relatable #MeToo story on YouTube
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 20. Mental images and emotive voices in true crime podcasts focused on female victims
  • Sensationalised (mental) images
  • Emotive voices
  • Concluding remarks
  • References
  • 21. Sexual violence and social justice: The celebrity #MeToo documentary in the US
  • Feminist true crime
  • #MeToo monsters
  • Intersectional #MeToo
  • Conclusion: activating change
  • Notes
  • References
  • 22. Remediating the "Yorkshire Ripper" event in the era of feminist true crime
  • Notes
  • References
  • 23. Class, victim credibility and the Pygmalion problem in real crime dramas Three Girls and Unbelieveable
  • Introduction
  • Three Girls (2017) and Unbelievable (2019): some parallels
  • The class politics of credibility
  • Victim hierarchies: narratives of fallen women
  • Doing away with Pygmalion
  • Notes
  • References.
  • 24. Victimhood and violence: Weaponising white femininity in South Africa
  • Weaponising white women
  • Farm murders" and GBV
  • Weaponising whiteness
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 25. Pregnant and disappeared: The Missing White Woman Syndrome in magazines
  • Introduction
  • The analytical origins of the Missing White Woman Syndrome
  • Magazines and the celebrification of missing white women
  • Erin Corwin is "Pregnant and Missing
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 26. Discourses and narratives of gender-based violence in Greek women's magazines
  • Introduction
  • Belonging and exclusion
  • Methodology
  • The "women-ology" repertoire
  • The "dynamics of exclusion" repertoire
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 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
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • 28. Patriarchal protectors of the national body: Violence, masculinity and gendered constructions of the US/Mexico border
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 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
  • Note
  • References
  • 30. Women's activist filmmaking against gendered violence in Pakistan
  • Introduction
  • Swara: A Bridge Over Troubled Waters ()
  • The activist films of Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgement
  • Notes
  • References.
  • Part 3: Gender-based violence online.