Medial portrayals of violence against women: WAAC meeting, Monday, 2 Sept 2019, resources and reading

Some things to help orient us for the meeting.

WEB ARTICLES

• ‘Party Twist’: The Herald Sun published an appalling front page about Courtney Herron’s murder
• How Australian media are changing the way they report violence against women
• Margaret River shooting: The problem with the ‘good bloke’ narrative
• ‘Good blokes’ don’t murder their families. Full stop.

JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, REPORTS

• Lady killers: Twenty years of magazine coverage of women who kill their abusers

GENERAL RESOURCES

• Jane Gilmore’s Fixed It blog. Go and have a look. It’s illuminating.

VIDEOS AND PODCASTS

• The myths about violence against women in the media, Jane Gilmore (13 mins) If you only have time for one resource, this is it**
• Dangerous discourses: Media coverage of violence against women, Pamela Nettleton (40 mins)

IN THE WAAC LIBRARY

• Fixed It, Violence and the representation of women in the  media, (on pre-order) Jane Gilmore (2019)
• The War Against Women, Marilyn French (1992)
• Boys Will be Boys. An exploration of power, patriarchy and the toxic bonds of mateship, Clementine Ford (2018)