Introduction : tracking global media and local activism / Sujata Moorti and Lisa Cuklanz
Serial prostitute homicide in the Chinese media / Elaine Jeffreys
Ripped from the headlines : newspaper depictions of battered women in Peru / M. Cristina Alcalde
The politics of rape and honor in Pakistan / Sidra Fatima Minhas
Media coverage of the murder of U.S. transwomen of color / Gordene MacKenzie and Mary Marcel
Invisible women : Chinese media responses to the Japanese "orgy" / Peter C. Pugsley and Jia Gao
The sacrifice of a schoolgirl : the 1995 rape case, discourses of power, and women's lives in Okinawa / Linda Isako Angst
Media constructions of ethnicized masculinity in South Africa / Pamela Scully
Gendered narratives of child sexual abuse in fiction film / Karen Boyle
Exposing domestic violence in country music videos / Julie Haynes
Mediated violence and women's activism in Serbia / Danica Minic
Beneath the layers of violence : representations of rape and the Rwandan genocide / Régine Michelle Jean-Charles.