Hiding in plain sight : gender, sexism and press coverage of the Jimmy Savile case

Boyle, Karen (2018) Hiding in plain sight : gender, sexism and press coverage of the Jimmy Savile case. Journalism Studies, 19 (11). pp. 1562-1578. ISSN 1461-670X

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    Abstract

    In 2012 – less than 12 months after his death – TV personality Jimmy Savile was revealed to have been a prolific sexual abuser of children and young adults, mainly girls and women. This study advances research on the gendering of violence in news discourse by examining press coverage in the period leading up to Savile’s unmasking. It investigates the conditions in which Savile’s predatory behaviour – widely acknowledged in his lifetime – finally became recast as (child sexual) abuse. Specifically, it challenges the gender-blind analyses of media coverage which have typified academic responses to date, arguing that Savile’s crimes – and the reporting of them – need to be understood in the broader context of everyday sexism: a contemporary, as well as an historic, issue.

    Author(s):Boyle, Karen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0162-2656
    Item type:Article
    ID code:63366
    Keywords:Jimmy Savile, news, Journalism, gender, child sexual abuse, gender-based violence, Broadcasting, Social pathology. Social and public welfare, Social Sciences(all)
    Subjects:Language and Literature > Literature (General) > Broadcasting
    Social Sciences > Social pathology. Social and public welfare
    Department:Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Humanities > Journalism
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:21 Feb 2018 15:47
    Last modified:27 Nov 2019 05:04
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/63366
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