Expressions of Blame
J. Sadie Clifford
Broschiertes Buch

Expressions of Blame

Narratives of Battered Women Who Kill in the Twentieth Century Daily Express

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The Daily Express reporting of battered women who kill uses framing borrowed from popular crime entertainment, which has included melodramatic theatre and silent film, clue-puzzle novels, film noir and reality-crime television. Its representations of the guilt or innocence of the women are shaped by these stories, which accord with the newspaper s political views and express its gender politics. It has preserved conservative, traditional ideologies of womanhood to the extent that the ''virgin-victim'' is held as a virtuous figure at both ends of the century. It has supported anti-feminist disc...