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Gender and Interpersonal Violence Also by Karen Throsby WHEN IVF FAILS Feminism, Infertility and the Negotiation of Normality Also by Flora Alexander CONTEMPORARY WOMEN NOVELISTS Gender and Interpersonal Violence Language, Action and Representation Edited by Karen Throsby University of Warwick, UK Flora Alexander Formerly at University ofA berdeen, UK palgrave macmillan * Selection and editorial matter © K. Throsby and F. Alexander 2008 Individual chapters © their respective authors 2008 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2008 978-0-230-57401-4 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. 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Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-36507-4 ISBN 978-0-230-22842-9 (eBook) DOI10.105719780230228429 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging. pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British library. library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gender and interpersonal violence: language, action and representation I [edited by] Karen Throsby. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-349-36507-4 (alk. paper) 1. Victims of family violence. 2. Victims of violent crimes. 3. Sex role. 4. Violence in mass media. I. Throsby, Karen, 1968- HV6626.G46 2008 303.6-dc22 2008027563 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 Transferred to Digital Printing 2011 Contents Acknowledgements vii Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 Karen Throsby and Flora Alexander Part I Lived Experience 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 Trafficking: 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 v vi Contents 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 Index 233 Acknowledgements Both Karen and Flora would like to thank Jeannette King at the University of Aberdeen, who organised the Feminist and Women's Studies Association (FWSA) conference in 200S and who encouraged us to take this publication forward. Our thanks also go to Joyce Walker, and the rest of the organising committee, who all worked incredibly hard to make the conference a success. We are also grateful to the Principal of the University of Aberdeen who provided a grant to support the event. We would like to thank all the participants for making the event such a success and the members and executive committee of the FWSA for their ongoing commitment to the goals of the organisation. We would like to thank Jill Lake at Palgrave Macmillan for helping us to take this project forward in the early stages and Olivia Middleton and Philippa Grand for their editorial support, and especially their patience. Thanks also go to the two anonymous reviewers for their supportive and constructive comments. We are grateful to all the contributors of the book for their hard work. The editors and publishers wish to thank the following for permission to reproduce copyright material: Pluto Press, for Chapter 7 from Jenny Kitzinger, Framing Abuse: Media Influence and Public Understanding of Sexual Violence Against Children (2004). Imperial War Museum, for photograph (MH24434) of Jacqueline Nearne in the 1944 documentary School for Danger. vii Notes on Contributors Bipasha Ahmed is a senior lecturer in social psychology and qualitative methodologies in the School of Psychology, University of East London. Her research interests are in critical approaches to psychology, particularly relating to 'race', gender and class. She has published and presented research on the social construction of racism, feminist psychology and issues relating to the research process. She is currently involved in researching South Asian women's experiences of sexual violence. Flora Alexander is the author of Contemporary Women Novelists (Edward Arnold, 1989) and articles on fiction by English, Scottish and Canadian women. Until 2001 she was a senior lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, where she co-founded an undergraduate programme in Women's Studies and taught on several Women's Studies courses, including a module on Gender and Violence. Rebecca Barnes is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Derby. She recently completed her PhD at the University of Nottingham, where she researched violence and abuse in women's same-sex relationships. She has wider research interests in gendered conceptualisations of domestic and sexual violence, and the long-term impacts of domestic violence upon the self. RichardA. Bryan has, since the start of this project, advanced from doctoral candidate to lecturer at the University of Tennessee. Now, although he has enjoyed and been greatly rewarded for his time in Knoxville, he looks forward to the fall and to serving as an assistant professor of dramatic literature in the Department of Language, Literature and Philosophy at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia. Alison Jobe recently completed a PhD on trafficked women's access to asylum in the United Kingdom, at Newcastle University. Her research interests include sexual trafficking, the prevention of violence against women, female asylum seekers and the UK asylum system. Jane Kilby is a lecturer in the School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Salford. Her research focuses viii Notes on Contributors ix on sexual violence and victim testimony. She is the author of Violence and the Cultural Politics of Trauma (EUP, 2007) and is currently writing a book on the ordinary nature of incest. Jenny Kitzinger is a professor of Media and Communications Research at the University of Cardiff. Her work examines power struggles in media production processes and is particularly concerned with questions of media influence and audience reception. She is the co-author of Human Cloning in the Media: From Science Fiction to Science Practice (Routledge, 2007) and the author of Framing Abuse: Media Influence and Public Understandings of Violence Against Children (Pluto, 2004). Nancy Lombard is in her final year of her Ph.D looking at how 10-and II-years old understand male violence against women and locating this within their everyday constructions of gender. She has both practical and theoretical experience in this field having been both a volunteer and caseworker at Women's Aid refuges in the North of England and London. She was also part of the research team commissioned by the Scottish Executive to investigate male domestic abuse in Scotland. Her research interests include male violence against women, feminist methodology, childhood and gender. Anamika Majumdar is currently a PhD student at London South Bank University. She researches South Asian married experiences of intimacy in the United Kingdom. She is supervised by Professor Jeffrey Weeks, Dr. Paula Reavey and Dr. Shaminder Takhar. Her research interests lie in sexuality, relationships and culture. She has previously worked on research projects focussed on understandings of sexual health and service provision with the Bangladeshi community of Tower Hamlets and South Asian women's experiences of sexual violence. Jarmila Mildorf is a lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Paderborn and is the author of Storying Domestic Violence: Constructions and Stereotypes ofA buse in the Discourse of General Practitioners (University of Nebraska, 2007). Jenny O'Connor is a PhD student at University College Dublin in Ireland and a lecturer in Communications at Waterford Institute of Technology. Her research examines Deleuzian approaches to modern film as well as feminist reworkings of Deleuze's philosophies. The three
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