Dangerous Discourses

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).

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• 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