Gender and Interpersonal Violence

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Karen Throsby, Flora Alexander

      Pages 1-8

3. Lived Experience

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Turning a Pretty Girl into a Killer’: Women, Violence and Clandestine Operations during the Second World War

      • Juliette Pattinson

      Pages 11-28

   3. ‘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

      • Rebecca Barnes

      Pages 29-43

   4. Cultural Transformations and Gender Violence: South Asian Women’s Experiences of Sexual Violence and Familial Dynamics

      • Bipasha Ahmed, Paula Reavey, Anamika Majumdar

      Pages 44-65

   5. Sexual Trafficking: A New Sexual Story?

      • Alison Jobe

      Pages 66-82

   6. ‘That’s a Bit Drastic’: Risk and Blame in Accounts of Obesity Surgery

      • Karen Throsby

      Pages 83-99

   7. The Promise of Understanding: Sex, Violence, Trauma and the Body

      • Jane Kilby

      Pages 100-117

4. Representations

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      Pages 119-119

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   2. ‘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

      • Nancy Lombard

      Pages 121-138

   3. Images of Abusers: Stranger-Danger, the Media, and the Social Currency of Everyday Knowledge

      • Jenny Kitzinger

      Pages 139-156

   4. Female-On-Male Violence: Medical Responses and Popular Imagination

      • Jarmila Mildorf

      Pages 157-170

   5. Male-On-Male Violence Against Women: Gender Representation and Violence in Rebecca Prichard’s Fair Game

      • Richard A. Bryan

      Pages 171-185

   6. ‘He Could See Her No Longer’: The Negation of Femininity Through Violence in Ian McEwan’s Fiction

      • Fiona Tolan

      Pages 186-199

   7. Thelma and Louise and the Politics of Excess

      • Alex Tate

      Pages 200-213

   8. Slap and Tickle: Violence as Fun in the Movies

      • Jenny O’Connor

      Pages 214-228

   9. Conclusion

      • Flora Alexander, Karen Throsby

      Pages 229-232

5. Back Matter

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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.

• children
• gender
• migration
• Nation
• politics
• Sex
• transformation
• violence
• women

• University of Warwick, UK

  Karen Throsby

• University of Aberdeen, UK

  Flora Alexander

BIPASHA AHMED is Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology and Qualitative Methodologies in the School of Psychology, University of East London, UK FLORA ALEXANDER was Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen, UK until her retirement in 2001 REBECCA BARNES is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Derby, UK RICHARD BRYAN is Lecturer at the University of Tennessee, USA ALISON JOBE recently completed a PhD on trafficked women's access to asylum at Newcastle University, UK JANE KILBY is Lecturer in the School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Salford, UK JENNY KITZINGER is Professor of Media and Communications Research at the University of Cardiff, UK NANCY LOMBARD is in the final year of her PhD at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK ANAMIKA MAJUMDAR is currently a PhD student at London South Bank University, UK JARMILA MILDORF is Lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Paderborn, Germany JENNY O'CONNOR is a PhD student at University College Dublin in Ireland, UK JULIETTE PATTINSON is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Strathclyde, UK PAULA REAVEY is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at London South Bank University, UK ALEX TATE is a PhD student in the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University, UK KAREN THROSBY is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK FIONA TOLAN is Lecturer in English at Liverpool John Moores University, UK

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