Overview
- Places media representations of rape within contemporary feminist debates, including those sparked by #metoo
- Offers detailed analysis of rape discourse and explores new avenues for synchronic and diachronic studies
- Examines coverage of high-profile cases over time and in context to celebrity culture and news values
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality (PSLGS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Setting the Scene
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At the Surface
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Delving Deeper
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Reviews
“An important, rigorous and very readable book which will be an essential point of reference for future studies of sexual violence in the news. Tranchese demonstrates which myths about rape have persisted, as well as highlighting how they have adapted to the digital news environment. Her analysis is clear and persuasive and provides activists with new tools and evidence to push for change. This is feminist media studies at its best. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.”
—Karen Boyle, Author #MeToo, Weinstein and Feminism, University of Strathclyde
“This book is essential reading for anyone who really wants to understand how the myths and stereotypes around rape are moulded and sustained by the British media, distracting from the profound structural changes required to dismantle misogyny and deliver real justice for women, too often denied by the courts.”
—Yvonne Roberts, journalist and campaigner
“This analysisof what changed, and what didn’t, in British press coverage of sexual violence against women between 2009 and 2019 is a valuable and much needed contribution to our understanding of a pervasive social problem. Tranchese shows how the media’s choices about what to report and how contribute to that problem, and how recent developments like the rise of online media consumption and the ‘celebrification’ of news have made things worse. It’s a sobering but necessary read, which will be welcomed by linguists and other social scientists researching violence against women, media discourse or both.”
—Deborah Cameron, Professor of Language and Communication, University of Oxford, UK
“A fascinating analysis of linguistic and discursive patterns surrounding press reporting of sexual violence towards women both before and during the #MeToo era.”—Paul Baker, Professor of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK
“An exceptionally well-researched account of how the British media have represented sexual violence over the past two decades. Through
in-depth discourse analysis, Tranchese powerfully charts the mytholo- gies embedded in press coverage of men’s sexual violence against women, and details how these contribute to the social conditions that make such violence possible.”
—Dr. Fiona Vera-Gray, Deputy Director of the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan University, UK
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Alessia Tranchese is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Applied Linguistics at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Her research interests include the representation of violence against women in the media, online misogyny, and corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Fritzl to #metoo
Book Subtitle: Twelve Years of Rape Coverage in the British Press
Authors: Alessia Tranchese
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09353-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09352-4Published: 01 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09355-5Published: 02 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-09353-1Published: 31 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2947-9169
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9177
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 436
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour
Topics: Language and Gender, Corpus Linguistics, Media and Communication, Gender Studies, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Culture and Gender