Karen Boyle

Karen Elizabeth Boyle (born 22 October 1971),^[1] is Professor of Feminist Media Studies at the University of Strathclyde, previously she was professor of Feminist Studies at the University of Stirling,^[2] and before that was a lecturer in film and television studies at the University of Glasgow. She has published a number of articles on feminism, violence and pornography.^[3]

Boyle sits on the editorial boards of both Feminist Media Studies,^[4] and Sexualization, Media, and Society.^[5]

Bibliography

Books

• Boyle, Karen (2005). Media and violence gendering the debates. London Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications. ISBN 9781412903790.
• Boyle, Karen (2010). Everyday pornography. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415543781.

Chapters in books

• Boyle, Karen (2005), "Feminism without men: Feminist media studies in a post-feminist age", in Curran, James; Gurevitch, Michael (eds.), Mass media and society, London New York: Hodder Arnold Distributed in the USA by Oxford University Press, pp. 29–45, ISBN 9780340884997.
• Boyle, Karen; Weissmann, Elke (2007), "Evidence of things unseen: the pornographic aesthetic and the search for truth in CSI", in Allen, Michael (ed.), Reading CSI crime TV under the microscope, London New York: I.B. Tauris, pp. 90–102, ISBN 9781845114282.
• Boyle, Karen (2009), "Gendered narratives of child sexual abuse in fiction film", in Cuklanz, Lisa M.; Moorti, Sujata (eds.), Local violence, global media: feminist analyses of gendered representations, Intersections in Communications and Culture: Global Approaches and Transdisciplinary Perspectives Series, Vol. 23, New York: Peter Lang, pp. 181–200, ISBN 9781433102769.
• Boyle, Karen (2009), "Film, violence and gender", in Stark, Evan D.; Buzawa, Eve S. (eds.), Violence against women in families and relationships: volume 4 The media and cultural attitudes, Santa Barbara, California: Praeger/ABC-CLIO, pp. 37–58, ISBN 9780275998462.
• Boyle, Karen (2010), ""That's so fun": selling pornography for men to women in The Girls Next Door", in Dines, Gail; Humez, Jean M. (eds.), Gender, race and class in media: a critical reader (3rd ed.), California: SAGE, pp. 293–300, ISBN 9781412974417.
• Boyle, Karen (2012), "The dark side of hard core: critical documentaries on the sex industry", in Hines, Claire; Kerr, Darren (eds.), Hard to swallow: hard-core pornography on screen, London New York: Wallflower Press / Columbia University Press, pp. 27–41, ISBN 9780231162135.
• Boyle, Karen (2014), "Feminism and pornography", in Evans, Mary; Hemmings, Clare; Henry, Marsha; Johnstone, Hazel; Madhok, Sumi; Plomien, Ania; Wearing, Sadie (eds.), The SAGE handbook of feminist theory, Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE, pp. 215–231, ISBN 9781446252413.
• Boyle, Karen (2015), "Buying and selling sex: sexualisation, commerce, and gender", in Carter, Cynthia; Steiner, Linda; McLaughlin, Lisa (eds.), The Routledge companion to media & gender, London New York: Routledge, pp. 259–268, ISBN 9781138849129.

Journal articles

• Boyle, Karen (June 1996). "British feminist archive needs you". Off Our Backs. 26 (6): 21. JSTOR 20835524.
• Boyle, Karen (March–April 2000). "The pornography debates: beyond cause and effect". Women's Studies International Forum. 23 (2): 187–195. doi:10.1016/S0277-5395(00)00077-7.
• Boyle, Karen (November 2001). "What's natural about killing? Gender, copycat violence and Natural Born Killers". Journal of Gender Studies. 10 (3): 311–321. doi:10.1080/09589230120086511. S2CID 145330524.

See also the film: Natural Born Killers.

• Boyle, Karen (Winter 2002 – Spring 2003). "Revisiting the Papin case: gender, sexuality and violence in "Sister My Sister"". South Central Review. 19/20 (1): 103–118. doi:10.2307/3190138. JSTOR 3190138.

See also: Christine and Léa Papin and the film Sister My Sister.

• Boyle, Karen (April 2006). "The boundaries of porn studies" (PDF). New Review of Film and Television Studies. 4 (1): 1–16. doi:10.1080/17400300600577286. S2CID 143013920.

Review of Linda Williams' book, Porn Studies.

• Boyle, Karen (March 2008). "Courting consumers and legitimating exploitation: the representation of commercial sex in television documentaries" (PDF). Feminist Media Studies. 8 (1): 35–50. doi:10.1080/14680770701824894. S2CID 142235679.
• Boyle, Karen (2009). "Book review: Sexy thrills: undressing the erotic thriller by Nina K. Martin". Feminist Review. 92 (92): 170–171. doi:10.1057/fr.2009.9. JSTOR 40664040.
• Boyle, Karen (November 2009). "Attractions and distractions: mums, babies and 'early' cinemagoing". Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies. 6 (2): 260–283. Pdf.
• Boyle, Karen; et al. (March 2010). "Commentary and criticism: representations of sex workers (Selling the selling of sex: Secret Diary of a Call Girl on screen)". Feminist Media Studies. 10 (1): 113–116. doi:10.1080/14680770903457469. S2CID 141294819.
• Boyle, Karen (August 2010). "Watch with baby: cinema, parenting and community" (PDF). European Journal of Cultural Studies. 13 (3): 275–290. doi:10.1177/1367549410363196. S2CID 145748078.
• Boyle, Karen (November–December 2011). "Producing abuse: selling the harms of pornography". Women's Studies International Forum. 34 (6): 593–602. doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2011.09.002.
• Boyle, Karen (April 2012). "The myth of objectivity: a reply to Weitzer" (PDF). Violence Against Women. 18 (4): 506–511. doi:10.1177/1077801212452547. PMID 22865619. S2CID 206667778.

See also: Weitzer, Ronald (May 2011). "Pornography's effects: the need for solid evidence: A review essay of "Everyday pornography", edited by Karen Boyle (New York: Routledge, 2010) and "Pornland: how porn has hijacked our sexuality", by Gail Dines (Boston: Beacon, 2010)". Violence Against Women. 17 (5): 666–675. doi:10.1177/1077801211407478. PMID 21511821. S2CID 220342944.

• Boyle, Karen (May 2014). "Gender, comedy and reviewing culture on the Internet Movie Database". Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies. 11 (1): 31–49. Pdf.
• Boyle, Karen; Berridge, Susan (May 2014). "I love you, man: gendered narratives of friendship in contemporary Hollywood comedies" (PDF). Feminist Media Studies. 14 (3): 353–368. doi:10.1080/14680777.2012.740494. hdl:1893/20600. S2CID 145741364.
• Boyle, Karen; Reburn, Jenny (March 2015). "Portrait of a serial killer: intertextuality and gender in the portrait film" (PDF). Feminist Media Studies. 15 (2): 192–207. doi:10.1080/14680777.2014.946943. S2CID 88510772.
• Boyle, Karen (July 2015). "Introduction: visual pleasure and narrative cinema at forty". Feminist Media Studies. 15 (5): 880–881. doi:10.1080/14680777.2015.1075271. S2CID 147077066.

Article refers to: Mulvey, Laura (Autumn 1975). "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema". Screen. 16 (3): 6–18. doi:10.1093/screen/16.3.6.

Other

• Boyle, Karen; Ross, Elizabeth A.; Bearse, Miriam L. (1996). "A Chronology of the Women's Liberation Movement in Britain, 1969–79: Table of Contents". feministarchivenorth.org.uk. Bradford: Feminist Archive, North. Archived from the original on 21 June 2007. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
• Boyle, Karen; Macleod, Jan (2005). "Getting the message across? Challenging male violence through public education". Glasgow: Women's Support Project. Pdf. (Catalogue of resources.)
• Boyle, Karen (4 June 2015). "How to do things with pornography". Times Higher Education. TES Global.

Book review of: Bauer, Nancy (2015). How to do things with pornography. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674055209.

References

External links

• Profile page: Karen Boyle University of Stirling

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