Male and Female Violence in Popular Media

Elisa Giomi is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts at Roma Tre University, Italy. Her work has been published in Television Antiheroines (2017) and the International Review of Sociology. Sveva Magaraggia is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Sciences at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy. Her publications include Feminist Perspectives on Teaching Masculinities: Learning Beyond Stereotypes (2019) and "The Men’s Issue. Male Violence against Women in Media Representations" in AIS-Journal of Sociology.

Series Editors' Introduction
Introduction
Part I: Theoretical Frames
1. Men’s Violence Against Women: Data, Explanatory Models and Debates
2. Women’s Violence Against Men: Data, Explanatory Models and Debates
3. Men’s Violence Against Women and Women’s Violence Against Men on the Media: Aesthetics, Rhetorics and Politics of Representation
Part II: Empirical Research
4. "You have to beg me not to kill you": Male Violence in Contemporary Italian Pop Music
5. Ladies’ Violence is a Game, Gentlemen’s Violence is Deadly: The (Ab)uses of Gendered Violence in
Advertising
6. Tormented Men vs Manipulative Women: Male and Female Intimate Partner Violence in Factual Entertainment
7. "Man of any size lays hands on me, he’s gonna bleed out in under a minute": The New Politics of Representation of Gendered Violence in International Crime TV Series
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index