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Killing Women
Annette Burfoot (Ed.)
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Description for Killing Women
Paperback. Contains essays which deal with the ways that women are portrayed in relation to violence, whether they are murder victims or killers. This book discusses nationalism and war, feminist media, and the depiction of violence throughout society. Editor(s): Burfoot, Annette; Lord, Susan. Num Pages: 354 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFE; JFSJ1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
487g
Number of Pages
354
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9780889204973
SKU
V9780889204973
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About Annette Burfoot (Ed.)
Annette Burfoot teaches feminist science studies and visual culture at Queenas University, Kingston. She is the editor of The Encyclopedia of Reproductive Technologies (1999). Susan Lord teaches in the Department of Film Studies at Queenas University, Kingston. With Janine Marchessault, she is co-editor of Fluid Screens, Expanding Cinemas (2006).
Reviews for Killing Women
``Represents a significant contribution to the study of violence and women, one that offers productive avenues of development for the emerging fields of new media studies.''
Cheryl Simon
Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Volume 16, number 2, Fall 2007, 200804 ``Burfoot and Lord create a space where a critical visual vocabulary on gendered violence, gender and violence, and ... Read more
Cheryl Simon
Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Volume 16, number 2, Fall 2007, 200804 ``Burfoot and Lord create a space where a critical visual vocabulary on gendered violence, gender and violence, and ... Read more