Killing Women

The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence

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Edited by Annette Burfoot and Susan Lord

Type

Studies

Subject

Sociology

Keywords

women, murder, violence

Publishing date

2006

Publisher

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Collection

Cultural Studies

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 354 pages
6 x 9 inches (15.5 x 23 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-88920-497-7
978-0-88920-497-3

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Book Presentation:
The essays in Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence find important connections in the ways that women are portrayed in relation to violence, whether they are murder victims or killers. The book's extensive cultural contexts acknowledge and engage with contemporary theories and practices of identity politics and debates about the ethics and politics of representation itself. Does representation produce or reproduce the conditions of violence? Is representation itself a form of violence? This book adds significant new dimensions to the characterization of gender and violence by discussing nationalism and war, feminist media, and the depiction of violence throughout society.

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