Description
Book SynopsisAs binge-watching and streaming lead to increasing amounts of content and screen time, understanding how domestic violence and abuse is portrayed in popular culture and its impact on DVA in our society is more important than ever. Amid current international attention on sexual harassment, abuse and exploitation initiated by the #MeToo movement, this collection demonstrates how networked communication is influencing activism, both online and in the real-world.
The term gendered DVA recognises the wider gender inequality underpinning DVA, and intersecting inequalities such as race, social class, sexuality, age and disability. International contributors from Europe, the USA and Australia examine how DVA is represented in different media forms comprising film, television, newspapers, digital and social media, and TED lectures. The collection examines intimate partner abuse, child abuse, grooming and sexual exploitation, elder abuse and neglect, and abuse in LGBT relationships. Authors also analyse policy changes in relation to DVA, both progressive and regressive, together with topics such as moral panic in the media and trial by media.
An in-depth and wide-ranging resource, this collection will be a valuable text for health and social care professionals, researchers, academics, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and people with lived experience of DVA.
Trade ReviewThe book’s interesting collection of chapters illustrates the many ways that the media compounds gendered domestic violence and abuse, as well as the ways it can be helpful in empowering victims/survivors, holding authorities to account, and changing perceptions and practice. There are some important messages for social work research and practice.
-- Ann Taket * Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work *
This book highlights the magnitude of DVA globally but also offers hope that change can be brought about through influencing, shaping and reframing popular culture.
-- Nushra Mansuri
Table of ContentsPrologue. Gendered Domestic Violence and Abuse, Popular Culture, and the Digital Revolution;
Michele LloydChapter 1. Death Foretold: A Multi-perspective Study of Domestic Violence in an Italian Town;
Elena Allegri Chapter 2. Examining Domestic Violence and Abuse in Mainstream and Social Media: Representations and Responses;
Michele Lloyd Chapter 3. Hollywood and Beyond: Re-Screening Domestic Violence;
Diane L. Shoos Chapter 4. Leslie Morgan Steiner: An analysis of TED Lectures on Domestic Violence by Men towards Women;
Shulamit Ramon Chapter 5. The Australian media and child abuse;
Victoria Marshall and Chris Goddard Chapter 6. Elder Abuse and Media Representation of Abuse in Family settings;
Bridget Penhale Chapter 7. News Media Representation of Domestic Violence Victims and Perpetrators: Focus on Gender and Sexual Orientation in Reviewing International Literature;
Luca Rollè, Tommaso Trombetta, Fabrizio Santoniccolo and Domenico D’Amico Chapter 8. Moral panic in the media: Scapegoating South Asian men in cases of sexual exploitation and grooming;
Aisha K. Gill and Aviah Sarah Day Chapter 9. ‘Stories not bouquets!’: The #metoo campaign in Slovenia and its social consequences;
Darja Zaviršek Epilogue. Gendered Domestic Violence and Abuse in Popular Culture: where we are and where we would like to be;
Shulamit Ramon
