Local Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2009), viii, 276 pp.
Contains illustrations, index
Series: Intersections in Communications and Culture, 23
ISBN 978-1-4331-0276-9
"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 around the globe. In addition to documenting specific challenges and shortcomings of mainstream representations, chapters present insight into the various forms of resistance and hope that exist in each particular area, and analytical essays open up new lines of inquiry by offering an assessment of the uneven changes that feminist activism has enabled around the world." (Publisher description)
1 Introduction: Tracking global media and local activism / Sujata Moorti and Lisa Cuklanz, 1
REPRESENTING VIOLATED BODIES
2 Serial prostitute homicide in the Chinese media / Elaine Jeffreys, 27
3 Ripped from the headlines: newspaper depictions of battered women in Peru / M. Cristina Alcalde, 46
4 The politics of rape and honor in Pakistan / Sidra Fatima Minhas, 65
5 Media coverage of the murder of U.S. transwomen of color / Gordene MacKenzie and Mary Marcel, 79
THE POLITICISED ARENA OF VIOLENCE
6 Invisible women: Chinese media responses to the Japanese "orgy" / Peter C. Pugsley and Jia Gao, 109
7 The sacrifice of a schoolgirl: the 1995 rape case, discourses of power, and women's lives in Okinawa / Linda Isako Angst, 132
8 Media constructions of ethnicized masculinity in South Africa / Pamela Scully, 160
TRANSFORMATIVE/ALTERNATTVE PRACTICES
9 Gendered narratives of child sexual abuse in fiction film / Karen Boyle, 181
10 Exposing domestic violence in country music videos / Julie Haynes, 201
11 Mediated violence and women's activism in Serbia / Danica Minic, 222
12 Beneath the layers of violence : representations of rape and the Rwandan genocide / Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, 246
REPRESENTING VIOLATED BODIES
2 Serial prostitute homicide in the Chinese media / Elaine Jeffreys, 27
3 Ripped from the headlines: newspaper depictions of battered women in Peru / M. Cristina Alcalde, 46
4 The politics of rape and honor in Pakistan / Sidra Fatima Minhas, 65
5 Media coverage of the murder of U.S. transwomen of color / Gordene MacKenzie and Mary Marcel, 79
THE POLITICISED ARENA OF VIOLENCE
6 Invisible women: Chinese media responses to the Japanese "orgy" / Peter C. Pugsley and Jia Gao, 109
7 The sacrifice of a schoolgirl: the 1995 rape case, discourses of power, and women's lives in Okinawa / Linda Isako Angst, 132
8 Media constructions of ethnicized masculinity in South Africa / Pamela Scully, 160
TRANSFORMATIVE/ALTERNATTVE PRACTICES
9 Gendered narratives of child sexual abuse in fiction film / Karen Boyle, 181
10 Exposing domestic violence in country music videos / Julie Haynes, 201
11 Mediated violence and women's activism in Serbia / Danica Minic, 222
12 Beneath the layers of violence : representations of rape and the Rwandan genocide / Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, 246
