Societies | |
Sexual Violence, Race and Media (In)Visibility: Intersectional Complexities in a Transnational Frame | |
Vrushali Patil1  Bandana Purkayastha2  | |
[1] Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th St, DM 212 Miami, FL 33199, USA;Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut, University of Connecticut Unit 1068, 344 Mansfield Road, Storrs, CT 06269, USA; E-Mail: | |
关键词: news media; intersectionality; rape; US; India; transnationalism; | |
DOI : 10.3390/soc5030598 | |
来源: mdpi | |
【 摘 要 】
Intersectional scholarship argues that women of color have distinct experiences of rape compared to white women and highlights their relative invisibility as victims compared to white women victims in news media. While the bulk of intersectional work has examined such issues within one nation and particularly within the US, in an era of increasingly transnationalized media content, we explore such intersectionalities in a transnational frame. That is, we explore the treatment of the rape of a local Indian woman in New Delhi, India, and the rape of a white woman in Steubenville, USA, in the
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