“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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Main Author: Garraio, Júlia (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10316/36129
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:estudogeral.sib.uc.pt:10316/36129