More than 'whore' : a discourse analysis on the media coverage of the murders of sex trade workers in Edmonton, Canada, 2001-2008

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dc.contributor.authorLarter, Tamara
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorMalacrida, Claudia
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-01T04:53:52Z
dc.date.available2012-02-01T04:53:52Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.degree.levelMasters
dc.descriptionix, 126 leaves ; 29 cmen_US
dc.description.abstractTwenty women linked with the sex trade in Edmonton, Canada went missing or were murdered between 2001 and 2008. In this study, I use Foucauldian and feminist theories, via discourse analysis, to examine the ways that Edmonton’s newspapers (re)present these murders. My findings show that the newspapers’ discourse deviantises these women, thereby minimising the tragedy of their disappearances and deaths. This deviantisation is deployed in three ways; by framing sex trade workers as criminally, medically, and morally deviant. Criminal deviance places sex trade workers firmly on the ‘wrong’ side of the law, making them undeserving of police protection; medical deviance implies that only women who are mentally ill in some way would take part in the sex trade, and, simultaneously, hyperbolises the role of sex workers in the spread of venereal diseases. Finally, discourses of moral deviance place sex workers on the ‘wrong’ side of morality and femininity. iven_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/2596
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Sociology, c2011en_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Sociologyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectProstitutes -- Press coverage -- Alberta -- Edmontonen_US
dc.subjectProstitution -- Press coverage -- Alberta -- Edmontonen_US
dc.subjectProstitutes -- Crimes against -- Alberta -- Edmontonen_US
dc.subjectProstitutes -- Violence against -- Alberta -- Edmontonen_US
dc.subjectVictims of crimes -- Alberta -- Edmontonen_US
dc.subjectMurder -- Alberta -- Edmontonen_US
dc.subjectDissertations, Academicen_US
dc.titleMore than 'whore' : a discourse analysis on the media coverage of the murders of sex trade workers in Edmonton, Canada, 2001-2008en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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