While there exists a wide range of material covering violence against women very little
scholarly attention has been paid to international media treatments of gendered violence. This
volume addresses the gap by providing a broad overview of contemporary representations of
gendered violence enabling comparison and contrast in forms of violence and constructions of
gender across a wide range of political and geographic contexts. From nonfictional accounts of
the mass rapes during the Rwandan genocide to the sexual objectification of women in Serbian
media and depictions of prostitute murders in the Chinese media this book provides an overview
of media representations of gendered violence around the globe. In addition to documenting
specific challenges and shortcomings of mainstream representations chapters present insight
into the various forms of resistance and hope that exist in each particular area and
analytical essays open up new lines of inquiry by offering an assessment of the uneven changes
that feminist activism has enabled around the world. Suitable for students and scholars in
women's studies gender studies media sociology and education Local Violence Global Media
can be used as a supplementary text in courses on media violence sociology of media gendered
violence in media and international perspectives on women's studies.
