Gender and Interpersonal Violence : Language, Action and Representation (Hardcover)

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 Almodovar and Quentin Tarrantino; J. O'Connor