Gender and interpersonal violence : language, action and representation
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Gender and interpersonal violence : language, action and representation
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Drawing on research from a variety of disciplines, this edited collection challenges conventional understandings of gendered interpersonal violence, and identifies emerging sites and forms of resistance to it.
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- K. Throsby and F. Alexander PART I: LIVED EXPERIENCE A Soldier and a Woman: Women, Violence and Clandestine Operations During the Second World War
- J. Pattinson 'I Still Sort of Flounder Around in a Sea of Non-language': The Constraints of Language and Labels in Women's Accounts of Woman-to Woman Partner Abuse
- R. Barnes Cultural Transformations and Gender Violence: South Asian Women's Experiences of Sexual Violence and Familial Dynamics
- B. Ahmed, P. Reavey and A. Majumdar A New Sexual Story: Trafficking, Immigration and Asylum: The Converging of Discourses
- A. Jobe 'That's a Bit Drastic': Risk and Blame in Accounts of Obesity Surgery
- K. Throsby The Promise of Understanding: Sex, Violence, Trauma and the Body
- J. Kilby PART II: REPRESENTATION 'It's Wrong for a Boy to Hit a Girl because the Girl Might Cry': Investigating Primary School Children's Attitudes Towards Violence Against Women
- N. Lombard Images of Abusers: Stranger-Danger, the Media and the Social Currency of Everyday Knowledge
- J. Kitzinger Female-on Male Violence: Medical Responses and Popular Imagination
- J. Mildorf Male-on-male Violence Against Women: Gender Representation and Violence in Rebecca Prichard's Fair Game
- R. Bryan The Negation of Femininity Through Violence in Ian McEwan's Fiction
- F. Tolan Thelma and Louise and the Politics of Excess
- A. Tate Slap and Tickle: Dismembering Violence in the Work of Pedro Almodovar and Quentin Tarrantino
- J. O'Connor
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