Front Cover -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Toward a Framework for Integrating Women, Violence, and the Media -- Part I. Gendered Constructions. Women and Violence -- Chapter 1. Words that Wound. Print Media's Presentation of Gendered Violence -- Chapter 2. Constructing Murderers. Female Killers of "Law and Order" -- Chapter 3. Screening Stereotypes. African American Women in Hollywood Films -- Chapter 4. What About Women? The Representation of Women in Media, Crime, and Violence Textbooks -- Part II. Debating the Issues. Femicide and Sexual Terrorism -- Chapter 5. Does Gender Make a Difference? The Influence of Female Victimization on Media Coverage of Mass Murder Incidents -- Chapter 6. Rapist Freed, Victim Punished. Newspaper Accounts of Violence against Women in Bangladesh -- Chapter 7. Media Images of Wartime Sexual Violence. Ethnic Cleansing in Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia -- Chapter 8. The Haunting of Jane Tennison. Investigating Violence against Women in "Prime Suspect" -- Part III. Changing the Image. Feminist Critics and Criticism -- Chapter 9. Victims and Sources. Newspaper Reports of Mass Murder in Domestic Contexts -- Chapter 10. Running Out of Oxygen. Is "Television for Women" Suffocating Women? -- Chapter 11. Making Sense of a Female Malady. Fear of Crime, Hysteria, and Women Watching "Crimewatch UK" -- Chapter 12. Victim Blaming Through High-Profile Crimes. An Analysis of Unintended Consequences -- Selected Readings -- Contributors -- Back Cover.