From Fritzl To #Metoo: Twelve Years Of Rape Coverage In The British Press (Palgrave Studies In Language, Gender And Sexuality)

This book is the first longitudinal study of the language surrounding rape in the British press. Through a diachronic analysis informed by corpus linguistics and feminist theory, Tranchese examines how rape discourse has (or has not) changed over the past decade. With its detailed investigation of media representations, the book explores how age-old rape myths re-emerge with new forms in news narratives. Against the backdrop of twelve years of newspaper coverage of rape, including many high-profile cases, this study also traces the rise of “celebrity culture”, the emergence of #metoo, and the subsequent aggressive reaction against it. The author places these historical events and recent trends within broader debates on feminism, and the role of (social) media in the backlash against it. This book provides a much-needed linguistic analysis which will be of particular interest to scholars and students of feminist studies, language and gender, corpus-assisted discourse studies, and gendered crime.

• | Author: Alessia Tranchese
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Apr 01, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 453 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 3031093526
• | ISBN-13: 9783031093524