Gender and Interpersonal Violence Language, Action and Representation [Hardcover]

Drawing on research from a variety of disciplines, this edited collection challenges conventional understandings of gendered interpersonal violence, and identifies emerging sites and forms of resistance to it.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 Almod?var and Quentin Tarrantino;? J. O'ConnorBIPASHA AHMED is Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology and Qualitative Methodologies in the School of Psychology, University of East London, UKFLORA ALEXANDER was Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen, UK until her retirement in 2001REBECCA BARNES is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Derl#º