(Ebook) Gender and Interpersonal Violence: Language, Action and Representation by Throsby & Alexander (Eds.) ISBN 9780230574014, 0230574017

(Ebook) Gender and Interpersonal Violence: Language, Action and Representation by Throsby & Alexander (Eds.) ISBN 9780230574014, 0230574017

Contents

1 ‘Turning a Pretty Girl into a Killer’: Women, Violence and

Clandestine Operations during the Second World War 11

Juliette Pattinson

2 ‘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 29

Rebecca Barnes

3 Cultural Transformations and Gender Violence:

South Asian Women’s Experiences of Sexual Violence

and Familial Dynamics 44

Bipasha Ahmed, Paula Reavey and Anamika Majumdar

4 Sexual Traffi cking: A New Sexual Story? 66

Alison Jobe

5 ‘That’s a Bit Drastic’: Risk and Blame in Accounts

of Obesity Surgery 83

Karen Throsby

6 The Promise of Understanding: Sex, Violence,

Trauma and the Body 100

Jane Kilby

Part II Representations

7 ‘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 121

Nancy Lombard

8 Images of Abusers: Stranger-Danger, the Media,

and the Social Currency of Everyday Knowledge 139

Jenny Kitzinger

 9 Female-On-Male Violence: Medical Responses

and Popular Imagination 157

Jarmila Mildorf

10 Male-On-Male Violence Against Women: Gender

Representation and Violence in Rebecca

Prichard’s Fair Game 171

Richard A. Bryan

11 ‘He Could See Her No Longer’: The Negation of Femininity

Through Violence in Ian McEwan’s Fiction 186

Fiona Tolan

12 Thelma and Louise and the Politics of Excess 200

Alex Tate

13 Slap and Tickle: Violence as Fun in the Movies 214

Jenny O’Connor

Conclusion 229

Flora Alexander and Karen Throsby