African American women and violence: gender, race, and class in the news

Predicting crime story salience: A replication

“…For example, both Chermak (1998) and the current study were forced to drop the race variable from the analysis as race was rarely mentioned in crime incident stories. This was an important limitation as scholars who have been able to include race in models predicting the salience of homicide (Johnstone et al, 1994;Weiss & Chermak, 1998), and other scholars who have done interesting qualitative research in this area concluded that is it a significant variable (Meyers, 1997(Meyers, , 2004. Likewise, many other victim and defendant characteristic variables were dropped from the current models as a result of missing information.…”

Victim Gender in News Coverage of the Priest Sex Crisis by theBoston Globe

“…Representations of the murder and rape of women in newspapers, television news, and prime-time entertainment have been extensively analyzed by feminist scholars (Benedict, 1992;Meyers, 1997Meyers, , 2004Cuklanz, 1996Cuklanz, , 1999Moorti, 2002;Cuklanz & Moorti, 2006;Mackenzie & Marcel, 2009). These studies have identified a set of victim-blaming myths and frames that repeatedly manifest across these media.…”

Celebrities, violencia de género y derechos de las mujeres: ¿hacia una transformación del marco de reconocimiento?

“…Beyoncé encarna la noción de agencia y, siguiendo a Weidhase, -her combination of explicitly feminist content with performances of sexual agency signifies an exploration of black female sexuality beyond respectability politics‖ (Weidhase, 2005: 130). La autora problematiza las posturas que criticarán la hipersexualización de Beyoncé sobre la base de la histórica y recurrente deshumanización y victimización de las mujeres negras por su hipersexualidad (Collins, 1993;Meyers, 2004). Por tanto, reivindicar la agencia sexual contiene un acto de resistencia a la marginación y culpabilización experimentada por las mujeres de color.…”