Local violence, global media : feminist analyses of gendered representations /

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Imprint:New York : Peter Lang, c2009.
Description:viii, 276 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Intersections in communications and culture , 1528-610X ; v. 23
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7641589
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Other authors / contributors:Cuklanz, Lisa M.
Moorti, Sujata, 1963-
ISBN:9781433102769 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1433102765 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781433102776 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1433102773 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of 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.