Gender Violence and the Press - The St. Kizito Story

In July of 1991, nineteen schoolgirls were killed and over 70 were raped or gang-raped in an attack by their male classmates at the St. Kizito Mixed Secondary School in Meru, Kenya. The explanations in the press included school "indiscipline" due to administrative mismanagement, academic stress from the country's educational system, cultural norms indigenous to the Meru ethnic group, and victim characteristics (as assumed in rape myths).Dr. Steeves' study joins others in mass communications that show how media discourse may allow space for feminist interests within the dominant patriarchal ideology. In this instance the appearance of resistant views was significant in making alternative meanings available and in supporting women's growing antiviolence activism.

Summary

On the night of Saturday, July 13, 1991, a mob of male students at the St. Kizito Mixed Secondary School in Meru, Kenya, attacked their female classmates in a dormitory. Nineteen schoolgirls were killed in the melee and more than 70 were raped or gang raped.The

Product details

• Authors: H. Leslie Steeves
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1997
• EAN: 9780896801950
• ISBN: 978-0-89680-195-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 249 g
• Series: Ohio RIS Africa Series; African Series No. 67; Ohio RIS Africa Series; Research in International Studies, Africa Series; African Series No. 67
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science