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Missing Women, Missing News
Missing Women, Missing News
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Publisher:
Fernwood Publishing
DRM:
ACS4
Publication Year:
2020
ISBN-13: 9781773633053
Description:
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<em>Missing Women, Missing News</em> examines newspaper coverage of the arrest and trial of Robert Pickton, the man charged with murdering 26 street-level sex workers from Vancouver&#8217;s Downtown Eastside. It demonstrates how news narratives obscured the complex matrix of social and political conditions that made it possible for so many women to simply &#8216;disappear&#8217; from a densely populated urban neighborhood without provoking an aggressive response by the state. Grounded in a theory of ideology, this book argues that the coverage offers a series of coherent explanations that hold particular individuals and practices accountable but largely omit, conceal, or erase the broader socio<b>

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</b>political context that renders those practices possible.</p>