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Author Monckton Smith, Jane.

Title Relating rape and murder : narratives of sex, death and gender / Jane Monckton Smith
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 190 pages)
Contents Foreword by Professor Keith Soothill -- Relating Rape and Murder -- Biological/Historical Sexual Violence Discourse -- Feminism and Sexual Violence Discourse -- Jack the Ripper Narrative -- News Report Narratives -- Police Narratives -- Rape and Murder Related
Summary This book is about relating rape and murder in both senses of the term; that is the way rape and murder are linked and related and also how stories of rape and murder are related or told. It is argued that a close relationship has evolved which allows them to share meaning and this dangerous linkage has serious repercussions. Drawing from narratives produced in police investigations, press reporting and entertainment media, and using both modern and historical case studies of sexualised murder, the author challenges us to contemplate the possible effects of a relationship which allows us to characterize murder of women as rape, and redefine the human fears of women as female sexual vulnerability. The implications of the argument of this book are enormous, not only for the way police investigate violence against women, but for the way we construct human fears
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Rape in mass media.
Rape in mass media -- Case studies
Murder in mass media.
Murder in mass media -- Case studies
Rape victims -- Great Britain
Murder victims -- Great Britain
TRUE CRIME -- Murder -- General.
Murder in mass media
Murder victims
Rape in mass media
Rape victims
Great Britain
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230290662
0230290663