1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media and Violence

Edited By Karen Boyle, Susan Berridge Copyright 2024
656 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

656 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

656 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.