1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media and Violence
With the heated discussion around #MeToo, journalistic reporting on domestic abuse, and the popularity of true crime documentaries, gendered media discourse around violence and harassment has never been more prominent.
The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media and Violence is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this important subject and is the first collection on media and violence to take a gendered, intersectional approach. Comprising over 50 chapters by a team of interdisciplinary and international contributors, the book is structured around the following parts:
- News
- Representing reality
- Gender-based violence online
- Feminist responses
The media examples examined range from Australia to Zimbabwe and span print and online news, documentary film and television, podcasts, pornography, memoir, comedy, memes, influencer videos, and digital feminist protest. Types of violence considered include domestic abuse, "honour"-based violence, sexual violence and harassment, female genital mutilation/cutting, child sexual abuse, transphobic violence, and the aftermath of conflict. Good practice is considered in relation to both responsible news reporting and pedagogy.
The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media and Violence is essential reading for students and researchers in Gender Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, and Criminology.
Chapter 30 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 license.
Introduction
Karen Boyle and Susan Berridge
Part 1: News
Introduction
Karen Boyle and Susan Berridge
Chapter 1: "Sensational spikes" and "isolated incidents": examining the misrepresentation of domestic abuse by the media using the case studies of football and Covid-19
Nancy Lombard
Chapter 2: The media and male victim-survivors of domestic abuse
Stephen R. Burrell and Alishya Dhir
Chapter 3: Invisible feelings, Anti-Asian violences and abolition feminisms
Salonee Bhaman and Rachel Kuo
Chapter 4: Towards a fair justice system in Canada: women and girls homicide database project
Kandice Parker, Melanie A. Morrison, Todd G. Morrison, Senator Lillian Eva Quan Dyck and Karissa Wall
Chapter 5: Familicide, gender and "mental illness": beyond false dualisms
Denise Buiten
Chapter 6: Femminicidio in Italian televised news: a case study of La Vita in Diretta
Federica Formato
Chapter 7: Cruel benevolence: vulnerable menaces, menacing vulnerabilities and the white male vigilante trope
Kathryn Claire Higgins
Chapter 8: Exploring US news media portrayals of girls’ violence in the 1980s and 1990s: the emergence of a moral panic
Tia S. Andersen, Jennifer Silcox, Deena A. Isom
Chapter 9: Child sexual exploitation and scapegoating minority communities
Aisha K. Gill
Chapter 10: Hidden or hypervisible? Mapping the making of a moral panic over female genital mutilation/cutting
Emmaleena Käkelä
Chapter 11: Examining the Zimbabwean news media’s framing of men as victims of sexual assault
Mthokozisi Phathisani Ndhlovu
Chapter 12: The HIV man, Alexandra man and Hotboy: Swedish news coverage of rape as a folklore of fear
Gabriella Nilsson
Chapter 13: Forward and backwards: sexual violence in Portuguese news media
Júlia Garraio, Inês Amaral, Rita Basílio Simões and Sofia José Santos
Chapter 14: Representations of gender-based violence against children in Nigeria
Onyinyechi Nancy Nwaolikpe
Chapter 15: Media, courts and "#RiceBunny" testimonies in China
Li Jun
Chapter 16: Journalism, sexual violence and social responsibility
Einar Thorsen and Chindu Sreedharan
Part 2: Representing Reality
Introduction
Karen Boyle and Susan Berridge
Chapter 17: The politics of the traumatised voice: communicative injustice and structural silencing in contemporary media culture
Jilly Boyce Kay
Chapter 18: Public survivors: the burdens and possibilities of speaking as a survivor
Tanya Serisier
Chapter 19: Telling an authentic, relatable #MeToo story on YouTube
Carol Harrington and MacKenzie Gerrard
Chapter 20: Mental images and emotive voices in true crime podcasts focused on female victims
Jennifer O’Meara
Chapter 21: Sexual violence and social justice: the celebrity #MeToo documentary in the US
Tanya Horeck
Chapter 22: Remediating the "Yorkshire Ripper" event in the era of feminist true crime
Hannah Hamad
Chapter 23: Class, victim credibility and the Pygmalion problem in real crime dramas Three Girls and Unbelievable
Helen Wood
Chapter 24: Victimhood and violence: weaponising white femininity in South Africa
Nicky Falkof
Chapter 25: Pregnant and disappeared: the Missing White Woman Syndrome in magazines
Jennifer Musial
Chapter 26: Discourses and narratives of gender-based violence in Greek women’s magazines
Rafaela Orphanides
Chapter 27: Just a fantasy: how the discourse of fantasy attempts to resolve the conflicts of porn consumption
Maria Garner and Fiona Vera-Gray
Chapter 28: Patriarchal protectors of the national body: violence, masculinity and gendered constructions of the US/Mexico border
Lucia M. Palmer
Chapter 29: Militarised masculinity and the perpetration of violence in Chilean documentary
Lisa DiGiovanni
Chapter 30: Women’s activist filmmaking against gendered violence in Pakistan
Rahat Imran
Part 3: Gender-based violence online
Introduction
Susan Berridge and Karen Boyle
Chapter 31: Technology-facilitated abuse: intimate partner violence in digital society
Anastasia Powell
Chapter 32: Tactics of hate: toxic "creativity" in anti-feminist men’s rights politics
Debbie Ging
Chapter 33: Bad actors or bad architecture: rethinking gendered violence online
Emma A. Jane
Chapter 34: Networked misogyny on TikTok: a critical conjuncture
Sarah Banet-Weiser and Sophie Maddocks
Chapter 35: Naming and framing the harms of cyberflashing: men sending non-consensual dick pics
Clare McGlynn
Chapter 36: The non-consensual dissemination of intimate images on Telegram: the Italian case
Silvia Semenzin and Lucia Bainotti
Chapter 37: Online child sexual exploitation in the news: competing claims of gendered and sexual harm
Michael Salter
Chapter 38: Responding to transphobic violence online
Ben Colliver
Chapter 39: Homophobic humour in rape memes
Maja Brandt Andreasen
Chapter 40: Online discourses of violence against men: portrayals of neglect, discrimination and equality gone too far
Satu Venäläinen
Chapter 41: The curious case of Karen Carney: the argument for equity over equality in curbing the online abuse of women in sports media
Guy Harrison and Melody Huslage
Chapter 42: "Online othering": the case of women in politics
Emily Harmer
Chapter 43: Cyberviolence against women in politics
Eleonora Esposito
Chapter 44: Violence and the feminist potential of content moderation
Carolina Are and Ysabel Gerrard
Part 4: Feminist Responses
Introduction
Susan Berridge and Karen Boyle
Chapter 45: Engaging men online: using online media for violence prevention with men and boys
Michael Flood
Chapter 46
Gabriela Loureiro
Hashtag feminism in Brazil: making sense of gender-based violence with #PrimeiroAssédio
Chapter 47: After the affect: the tenuous leadership of viral feminists
Angela Towers
Chapter 48: Mediatisation of women’s rage in Spain: strategies of discursive transformation in digital spaces
Sonia Núñez Puente and Diana Fernández Romero
Chapter 49: Hashtag feminism straddling the Americas: a comparison between #NiUnaMenos and #MeToo
Francesca Belotti, Vittoria Bernardini and Francesca Comunello
Chapter 50: Digital feminist activism against gender violence in South Korea
Kaitlynn Mendes and Euisol Jeong
Chapter 51: Women 2020: how Pakistani feminisms unfolded between Twitter and the streets
Munira Cheema
Chapter 52: Digital feminist and queer activism against gender violence in China
Jia Tan
Chapter 53: Controversies, protests, coalitions: screen media’s lessons from the past
Gary Needham
Chapter 54: Collective action, performance and the body-territory in Latin American feminisms
Paula Serafini
Chapter 55: Doing feminist activism though creative practice research
Eylem Atakav
Chapter 56: Rethinking the curriculum: #MeToo and contemporary literary studies
Mary K. Holland and Heather Hewett
Chapter 57: I won’t look: refusing to engage with gender-based violence in women-led screen media
Rebecca Harrison
Biography
Karen Boyle is Professor of Feminist Media Studies at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.
Susan Berridge is Senior Lecturer in Film and Media at the University of Stirling, Scotland.
