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SELECTED READINGS Women, violence, and the media is a fast-paced area of study, and for this reason, the reading list that follows is intended to convey to interested readers a few of the emerging and continuing themes that characterize the field. Postfeminist work and responses to it mark a trend (see Bean, ; Chesney-Lind, ; Chunn, Boyd, & Lessard, ; Cole & Daniel, ; Dow & Wood, ). Postfeminism, new feminism, and thirdwave feminism are themes explored by several edited collections on media topics (see Cuklanz & Moorti, ; Johnson, a; Projansky, ; Tasker & Negra, ). The study of masculinities generates distinctive treatments of media representations, and one recent study, Media and Violence (Boyle, ), builds on earlier work on masculinities (Cuklanz, ; Ghoussoub & Sinclair-Webb, ). Moreover, terrorism and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have inspired new media research on domestic terror (Cohler, ), domestic stabilization (Cohler, ), the sexing of war (Herbst, ), militarized femininity (Sjoberg, ), the exploitation of women in time of war (Sarikakis, ), and women as weapons of war (Oliver, ). On a final note, scholarship on girls as producers of media (Kearney, ) and as participating feminists (Labaton & Martin, ) defines a new audience in a field that tends to address adult, female audiences (Boyle, ; Jermyn, ). Globalization, intersectionality, and transgressive women continue to inspire feminist media scholarship. News studies based on the media in Turkey, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the Middle East signal movement away from the Western press (Alat, ; de Leeuw & Van Wichelen , ; Gavey & Gow, ; Ghoussoub & Sinclair-Webb, ; Kogacioglu , ), as do edited collections organized around the global village or international perspectives (Kamalipour & Rampal, ; Ross & Byerly, ). A few of these sources are responsive to criticisms leveled at first-world feminists by third-world and postcolonial feminists. Intersectionality continues to drive theory and research (see Collins, ; Arrighi, ; hooks, ). African American (Meyers, ) and Italian American women (Johnson, b; Quinn, ) are specifically featured in three studies. Several titles deal with intersections of· · gender, race, and/or class in the context of media (Collins, ; Dines & Humez, ; hooks, ), audience and producers (Lind, ), and crime and justice (Cavender & Jurik, ; Markowitz & JonesBrown , ; Moorti, ; Projanksy, ). As for transgressive women, their deviations from heterosexual femininity have inspired studies on Medea (Barnett, ; Caputi, ), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Levine & Parks, ), bad girls (Chesney-Lind & Irwin, ; Owen, Vande Berg, & Stein, ); television’s female warriors (Early & Kennedy, ), outlaw culture (hooks, ), lesbian serial killers (Pearson , ), mean girls (Ringrose, ), and violent women (Hendin, ; White, ). The reading list also reflects a continuing interest in rape as the iconic form of violence against women (Bevacqua, ; Cuklanz, ; Franisk , Seafelt, Cepress, & Vanello, ; Gavey & Gow, ; Horeck, ; Projansky, ; Read, ; for domestic violence, see Berns, ) and in high-profile criminal trials (Chancer, ; Chermak & Bailey, ; Franisk, Seafelt, Cepress, & Vanello, ). It also indicates scholars’ preferences for examining gendered crime in film and television (Burfoot & Lord, ; Cavender & Jurik, ; Cuklanz, ; Cuklanz & Moorti, ; Early & Kennedy, ; Horeck, ; Jermyn, ; Johnson a, b; Levine & Parks, ; Moorti, ; Projanksy, ; Quinn, ; Rafter, ; Rapping, ). Alat, Z. (). News coverage of violence against women: The Turkish case. Feminist Media Studies, , –. Arrighi, B. A. (). Understanding inequality: The intersection of race/ethnicity, class and gender. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. Barnett, B. (). Medea in the media: Narrative and myth in newspaper coverage of women who kill their children. Journalism, , –. Bean, K. (). Post-backlash feminism: Women and the media since Reagan/Bush. Jefferson , NC: McFarland. Berns, N. (). Framing the victim: Domestic violence, media and social problems. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter. Bevacqua, M. (). Rape on the public agenda: Feminism and the politics of sexual assault. Boston: Northeastern University Press. Boyle, K. (). Media and violence: Gendering the debates. London: Sage. Burfoot, A., & Lord, S. (Eds). (). Killing women: The visual culture of gender and violence . Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press. selected readings· · [18.216.121.55] Project MUSE (2024-04-26 06:54 GMT) Caputi, J. (). Goddesses and monsters: Women, myth, power and popular culture. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press/Popular Press. Cavender, G., & Jurik, N. C. (). Scene composition and justice for women. Feminist Criminology, , –. Chancer, L. S. (). High-profile crimes: When legal cases become social causes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chermak, S., & Bailey, F. Y. (Eds.). (). Crimes and trials of the century. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Chesney-Lind, M. (). Patriarchy, crime and justice: Feminist criminology in an era of backlash. Feminist Criminology, , –. Chesney-Lind, M., & Irwin, K. (). Beyond bad girls: Gender, violence and hype. New York: Routledge. Chunn, D. E., Boyd, S. B., & Lessard, H. (Eds.). (). Reaction and resistance: Feminism , law and social change. Vancouver: UBC Press. Cohler, D. (). Keeping the home fires burning: Renegotiating gender and sexuality in US mass media after September . Feminist Media Studies, , –. Cole, E., & Daniel, J. H. (). Featuring females: Feminist analysis of media. Washington , DC: American Psychological...
