This essay revisits a monograph that chapter author H. Leslie Steeves published in 1997 to
explore questions of memory, media, and gender violence. In 1991, male students at the St …

surrounded, stoned, and broke into the girls' dormitory. The ensuing terror and torture was
described in the Kenya press as a" tragedy," as if the deaths of nineteen girls-most of them …

Purpose In 2001, the rape of “baby Tshepang” triggered a media frenzy in the small
community of Louisvale, located in the Northern Cape of South Africa. The purpose of this …

Sexual abuse is increasingly covered in mainstream public media in Kenyan magazines.
This thesis examines the perception of victims of sexual abuse in public opinion through the …

Many sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) stories have been broadcast and
published in Kenyan media but there are limited studies on how the media frames SGBV …

It was a shocking week, even in what seems to be the 'norm'of gendered violence in PNG.
Norms are so entrenched that without thinking many people become silenced, largely …

Kenyan women are exemplary survival strategies in the face of increasing hardship. 1 They
deserve the recognition, admiration, and sympathetic solidarity of other women on an …

Women, Visibility and Morality in Kenyan Popular Media examines constructions of
femininity in Kenyan popular media and how these constructions engage with morality …

The sexual exploitation of women and children has played a key role in the history of the
media. In 1885 scandal shook London when William Stead, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette …

5 outh Africans were outraged to hear that a grade eight learner was allegedly drugged and
gang raped while her classmates stood around and filmed it on their celiphones and that the …