Gender and Interpersonal Violence: Language, Action and Representation

by K. Throsby (Editor), F. Alexander (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349365074
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2008
Edition description:	1st ed. 2008
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

BIPASHA AHMED is Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology and Qualitative Methodologies in the School of Psychology, University of East London, UK FLORA ALEXANDER was Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen, UK until her retirement in 2001 REBECCA BARNES is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Derby, UK RICHARD BRYAN is Lecturer at the University of Tennessee, USA ALISON JOBE recently completed a PhD on trafficked women's access to asylum at Newcastle University, UK JANE KILBY is Lecturer in the School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Salford, UK JENNY KITZINGER is Professor of Media and Communications Research at the University of Cardiff, UK NANCY LOMBARD is in the final year of her PhD at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK ANAMIKA MAJUMDAR is currently a PhD student at London South Bank University, UK JARMILA MILDORF is Lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Paderborn, Germany JENNY O'CONNOR is a PhD student at University College Dublin in Ireland, UK JULIETTE PATTINSON is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Strathclyde, UK PAULA REAVEY is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at London South Bank University, UK ALEX TATE is a PhD student in the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University, UK KAREN THROSBY is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK FIONA TOLAN is Lecturer in English at Liverpool John Moores University, UK

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 Almodóvar and Quentin Tarrantino;  J. O'Connor