Elisa Giomi is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts at Roma Tre University, Italy. Her work has been published in Television Antiheroines (2017) and the International Review of Sociology.Sveva Magaraggia is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Sciences at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy. Her publications include Feminist Perspectives on Teaching Masculinities: Learning Beyond Stereotypes (2019) and "The Men’s Issue. Male Violence against Women in Media Representations" in AIS-Journal of Sociology.

Male and Female Violence in Popular Media is a clear, multilayered and disarmingly accessible look at the complex relationship between gender and violence, gendering as an act of violence, and violence as always already gendered.

• Series Editors' IntroductionIntroductionPart I: Theoretical Frames1. Men’s Violence Against Women: Data, Explanatory Models and Debates2. Women’s Violence Against Men: Data, Explanatory Models and Debates3. Men’s Violence Against Women and Women’s Violence Against Men on the Media: Aesthetics, Rhetorics and Politics of RepresentationPart II: Empirical Research4. "You have to beg me not to kill you": Male Violence in Contemporary Italian Pop Music5. Ladies’ Violence is a Game, Gentlemen’s Violence is Deadly: The (Ab)uses of Gendered Violence inAdvertising6. Tormented Men vs Manipulative Women: Male and Female Intimate Partner Violence in Factual Entertainment7. "Man of any size lays hands on me, he’s gonna bleed out in under a minute": The New Politics of Representation of Gendered Violence in International Crime TV SeriesConclusionBibliographyIndex

Elisa Giomi is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts at Roma Tre University, Italy. Her work has been published in Television Antiheroines (2017) and the International Review of Sociology.Sveva Magaraggia is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Sciences at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy. Her publications include Feminist Perspectives on Teaching Masculinities: Learning Beyond Stereotypes (2019) and "The Men’s Issue. Male Violence against Women in Media Representations" in AIS-Journal of Sociology.

Male and Female Violence in Popular Media is a clear, multilayered and disarmingly accessible look at the complex relationship between gender and violence, gendering as an act of violence, and violence as always already gendered.

• Series Editors' IntroductionIntroductionPart I: Theoretical Frames1. Men’s Violence Against Women: Data, Explanatory Models and Debates2. Women’s Violence Against Men: Data, Explanatory Models and Debates3. Men’s Violence Against Women and Women’s Violence Against Men on the Media: Aesthetics, Rhetorics and Politics of RepresentationPart II: Empirical Research4. "You have to beg me not to kill you": Male Violence in Contemporary Italian Pop Music5. Ladies’ Violence is a Game, Gentlemen’s Violence is Deadly: The (Ab)uses of Gendered Violence inAdvertising6. Tormented Men vs Manipulative Women: Male and Female Intimate Partner Violence in Factual Entertainment7. "Man of any size lays hands on me, he’s gonna bleed out in under a minute": The New Politics of Representation of Gendered Violence in International Crime TV SeriesConclusionBibliographyIndex

Elisa Giomi is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts at Roma Tre University, Italy. Her work has been published in Television Antiheroines (2017) and the International Review of Sociology.Sveva Magaraggia is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Sciences at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy. Her publications include Feminist Perspectives on Teaching Masculinities: Learning Beyond Stereotypes (2019) and "The Men’s Issue. Male Violence against Women in Media Representations" in AIS-Journal of Sociology.

Male and Female Violence in Popular Media is a clear, multilayered and disarmingly accessible look at the complex relationship between gender and violence, gendering as an act of violence, and violence as always already gendered.

• Series Editors' IntroductionIntroductionPart I: Theoretical Frames1. Men’s Violence Against Women: Data, Explanatory Models and Debates2. Women’s Violence Against Men: Data, Explanatory Models and Debates3. Men’s Violence Against Women and Women’s Violence Against Men on the Media: Aesthetics, Rhetorics and Politics of RepresentationPart II: Empirical Research4. "You have to beg me not to kill you": Male Violence in Contemporary Italian Pop Music5. Ladies’ Violence is a Game, Gentlemen’s Violence is Deadly: The (Ab)uses of Gendered Violence inAdvertising6. Tormented Men vs Manipulative Women: Male and Female Intimate Partner Violence in Factual Entertainment7. "Man of any size lays hands on me, he’s gonna bleed out in under a minute": The New Politics of Representation of Gendered Violence in International Crime TV SeriesConclusionBibliographyIndex