Gender and interpersonal violence: language, action and representation

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 9
Introduction......Page 12
Part I: Lived Experience......Page 20
1 ‘Turning a Pretty Girl into a Killer’: Women, Violence and Clandestine Operations during the Second World War......Page 22
2 ‘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......Page 40
3 Cultural Transformations and Gender Violence: South Asian Women’s Experiences of Sexual Violence and Familial Dynamics......Page 55
4 Sexual Trafficking: A New Sexual Story?......Page 77
5 ‘That’s a Bit Drastic’: Risk and Blame in Accounts of Obesity Surgery......Page 94
6 The Promise of Understanding: Sex, Violence, Trauma and the Body......Page 111
Part II: Representations......Page 130
7 ‘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......Page 132
8 Images of Abusers: Stranger-Danger, the Media, and the Social Currency of Everyday Knowledge......Page 150
9 Female-On-Male Violence: Medical Responses and Popular Imagination......Page 168
10 Male-On-Male Violence Against Women: Gender Representation and Violence in Rebecca Prichard’s Fair Game......Page 182
11 ‘He Could See Her No Longer’: The Negation of Femininity Through Violence in Ian McEwan’s Fiction......Page 197
12 Thelma and Louise and the Politics of Excess......Page 211
13 Slap and Tickle: Violence as Fun in the Movies......Page 225
Conclusion......Page 240
B......Page 244
E......Page 245
H......Page 246
M......Page 247
P......Page 248
S......Page 249
V......Page 250
Z......Page 251