“Arresting Gaddafi Will Be the Most Effective Way to Stop these Rapes”. Sexual Violence in the Western Media’s Coverage of the War in Libya

The aim of the present article is to tackle the way in which CNN and BBC – as leading examples of hegemonic Western media – represented the cases of sexual violence that were being denounced during the war in Libya. Looking into the coverage of this war may be useful to analyze the very concept of w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Júlia Garraio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra 2012-06-01
Series:e-cadernos ces
Subjects:
CNN
BBC
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/eces/1037