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Book Reviews : Women Viewing Violence Philip Schlesinger, R. Emerson Dobash, Russell P. Dobash and C. Kay Weaver BFI Publishing, London, 1992

This is an empirical study of women’s interpretations of television portrayals of violence against women. Completed in just one year it is an impressive achievement. It brings together media studies of audiences, and the sociological literature on violence against women that have hitherto largely developed in relative ignorance of each other. Group discussions were conducted with 91 women in a total of 14 groups. The women watched a number of television representations in which there were scenes of violence against women. Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected. The authors emphasise the advantages of such approaches over the contemporary tendency to concentrate solely on qualitative methods. Feminist media studies have largely concentrated on studying women’s media, women’s presence in mass media institutions (particularly in positions of power), or on analysing the use made of such media by women as consumers. These are all important topics but it is important to remember, as the authors point out, that ’the construction of the gender identities of women via the media needs to be understood in a context much broader than that of &dquo;women’s media&dquo; alone’ (p7).