1st Edition
Media Representations of Gender and Torture Post-9/11
By Marita Gronnvoll
Copyright 2010
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this timely book, Gronnvoll offers a feminist rhetorical examination of gender and torture, looking at the media coverage of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, as well as recent popular entertainment television serials where torture appears as a plot device (including 24). In exposing news media coverage to such scrutiny, she finds that cases of American personnel engaging in torture achieved... Read more
Acknowledgments 1: Interrogating Torture 2: Gender (In)Visibility at Abu Ghraib 3: Sex, Blood, and Degradation: The Women of Gitmo 4: Torture Television 5: 24: Reshaping the Messiah 6: A Question of Torture Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Marita Gronnvoll is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of Communication Studies at Eastern Illinois University.
