Dangerous Discourses

Acknowledgments - Rachel Alicia Griffin: Foreword - Catherine R. Squires: Introduction - Part I: Reframing Guns, Violence, and Gender in Public Discourses - Carol A. Stabile and Bryce Peake: Coverage That Kills: Misogyny, "Mass Shootings", and the Masculine Economy of the U.S. News Cycle - Patty Sotirin: Silencers: Governmentality, Gender, and the Ban on Gun Violence Research - Ruth DeFoster & Catherine R. Squires: What Does Civility Have to Do with It? TV News Coverage of the 2011 Tucson Rampage Shooting - Sarah J. Jackson: Defining Women in Need: Online Coverage of the Violence against Women Act and Native and Undocumented Women - Part II: Recognizing Victims - Brittany Lewis: The Black Shadow of White Sympathy: Hunger Games, Disposable Black Girlhood, and the Unspoken Politics of the National Gun Debate - Catherine R. Squires: Making Visible Victimhood, Bringing Intersectionality to a Mass Shooting: #SAYHERNAME, Black Women, and Charleston - Part III: Men Who Shoot Women - Margaret Rhee: The Virginia Tech Tragedy and the LGBTQ Media: Responses of Normativity and Nation - Gayatri Devi: Misogyny, Gun Control, and Mental Illness: The Etiology of a Cultural Disease - Part IV Dames in Distress(?): When Gals Have Guns- Mary D. Vavrus & August Leinbach: Postfeminism at the Shooting Range: Vulnerability and Fire-Empowerment in the Gun Women Network - Pamela Hill Nettleton: Lady Killers: Twenty Years of Magazine Coverage of Women Who Kill Their Abusers - Amanda Keeler: Gender, Guns, and Survival: The Women of The Walking Dead - Contributors - Bibliography

Catherine R. Squires (Ph.D., Northwestern University) is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Dispatches from the Color Line (2007), bell hooks: An Introduction to Communication Theory (Peter Lang, 2013), and The Post-Racial Mystique (2014).