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Author Berns, Nancy.

Title Framing the victim : domestic violence, media, and social problems / Nancy Berns
Edition First edition
Published Hawthorne, N.Y. : Aldine de Gruyter, [2004]
©2004

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Description x, 194 pages ; 23 cm
Series Social problems and social issues
Social problems and social issues.
Contents Zooming in (and out) on social problems -- The landscape of domestic violence and the public's narrow picture -- "I get my experience from the media" : using media to understand social problems -- Women's magazines : the victim empowerment frame -- Social problems as inspiration, entertainment, and emotion : women's magazines and other entertainment media -- Men's and conservative political magazines : the antifeminist frame -- Liberal political magazines : the social justice frame -- Framing the victim -- In search of a new social problem about violence
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-190)
Subject Social problems -- United States.
Social problems in mass media -- United States.
Family violence -- United States.
LC no. 2004001465
ISBN 0202307409 (cloth : alk. paper)
0202307417 (paperback: alk. paper)
Other Titles Domestic violence, media, and social problems