Drawing on diverse theoretical and textual sources, The Gender of Suicide presents a
critical study of the ways in which contemporary society understands suicide, exploring …

Interviews and focus groups are valuable methods that share an important place in
qualitative research in many disciplines, including journalism and mass communication. A …

In contemporary social and cultural contexts, suicide is understood as explicitly individual
and a deliberate choice and act. This article examines whether the intelligibility of suicide …

Following 21 September 2013, news media in the UK offered extensive and elaborate
coverage of the Westgate Mall Massacre in Nairobi, Kenya. This act of terrorism, perpetrated …

In the essay,'What is an Author?', Michel Foucault contends that 'the author does not
precede the works'. If this is the case, then what happens when the notion of the author as …

Pairing literature on constitutive rhetoric with Julia Kristeva's work on the abject as a
theoretical framework, we examine the rhetoric of US media that report with alarm and …

In this article, we trace shifting narratives of trauma within psychiatric, neuroscience, and
environmental epigenetics research. We argue that two contemporary narratives of trauma …

Based on the authors' understanding regarding the effect of ethnocentric coverage, on one
hand, and the tendency of the media to cover female perpetrators differently, on the other …

ABSTRACT During the Second Intifada of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, female-perpetrated
suicide bombings emerged as a new proponent of political violence during this phase of …

Despite important inroads, women's marginalization in the public sphere is still very real.
From a feminist theoretical perspective, and informed by Guy Debord's conceptualization of …