Women, Violence, and the Media: Readings in Feminist Criminology » (New Edition)

DREW HUMPHRIES is Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice, Rutgers University-Camden and the author of Crack Mothers: Pregnancy, Drugs, and the Media (Ohio State University Press 1999).

Provocative collection of essays designed to give students an understanding of media representations of women's experience of violence and to educate a new generation to recognize and critique media images of women

List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward a Framework for Integrating Women, Violence, and the Media Gendered Constructions: Women and Violence Words that Wound: Print Media's Presentation of Gendered Violence - Michelle L. Meloy and Susan L. Miller Constructing Murderers: Female Killers of 'Law and Order' - Drew Humphries Screening Stereotypes: African American Women in Hollywood Films - Frankie Y. Bailey What about Women? The Representation of Women in Media, Crime, and Violence Textbooks - Zoann K. Snyder Debating the Issues: Femicide and Sexual Terrorism Does Gender Make a Difference? The Influence of Female Victimization on Media Coverage of Mass Murder Incidents - Janice E. Clifford, Carl J. Jensen III, and Thomas A. Petee Rapist Freed, Victim Punished: Newspaper Accounts of Violence against Women in Bangladesh - Mahfuzul I. Khondaker and Melissa H. Barlow Media Images of Sexual Violence: Ethnic Cleansing in Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia - Yaschica Williams and Janine Bower The Haunting of Jane Tennison: Investigating Violence against Women in 'Prime Suspect' - Madelaine Adelman, Gray Cavender, and Nancy C. Jurik Changing the Image: Feminist Critics and Criticism Victims and Sources: Newspaper Reports of Mass Murder in Domestic Contexts - John W. Heeren and Jill Theresa Messing Running Out of Oxygen: Is "Television for Women" Suffocating Women? - Emily Lenning and Darrin Kowitz Making Sense of a Female Malady: Fear of Crime, Hysteria, and Women Watching 'Crimewatch UK' - Deborah Jermyn Victim Blaming through High-Profile Crimes: An Analysis of Unintended Consequences - Lynn S. Chancer Selected Readings Contributors