Rethinking the Victim: Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women's Writing

ISBN-13: 9781138092594 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str.

Anne Brewster; Sue Kossew

Opis

Arguing that gendered violence is inflected with sexuality, class, race, ethnicity and many other factors,this book rethinks victimhood and agency from a feminist perspective and resists the spectacularization of violence against women often graphically depicted in cinema, news and pornography.

Spis treści

Introduction.  Chapter 1: Intimate Violations: Gothic and Romance.  Chapter 2: Violence Against Women and Girls: Indigenous women’s activist poetry.  Chapter 3: Broken Families, Vulnerable Children.  Chapter 4: War and Political Violence.  Conclusion.