Gender and interpersonal violence

Chapter 1 Introduction

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

Chapter 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

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

Chapter 5 Sexual Trafficking: A New Sexual Story?

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

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

Chapter 8 ‘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

Chapter 9 Images of Abusers: Stranger-Danger, the Media, and the Social Currency of Everyday Knowledge

Chapter 10 Female-On-Male Violence: Medical Responses and Popular Imagination

Chapter 11 Male-On-Male Violence Against Women: Gender Representation and Violence in Rebecca Prichard’s Fair Game

Chapter 12 ‘He Could See Her No Longer’: The Negation of Femininity Through Violence in Ian McEwan’s Fiction

Chapter 13 Thelma and Louise and the Politics of Excess

Chapter 14 Slap and Tickle: Violence as Fun in the Movies

Chapter 15 Conclusion