Finley (sociology and criminology, Barry Univ., FL) complements her extensive survey of films, video games, songs, and fiction books with an equally impressive roster of scholarship on the impact of media on human behavior to provide an easily accessible introduction to popular culture's portrayal of sexual violence and its ties to more mundane forms of gender inequality. The author structures her analysis on the deconstruction of stereotypical representations of domestic violence, perpetrators, and victims. Focusing on stereotypes such as "stupid sluts," "domestic terrorists," "innocent children," and "strangers in the bushes," Finley calls attention to the ways that popular culture perpetuates commonly held myths about domestic violence. The volume interrogates the exclusion and othering of domestic violence victims and perpetrators alike. Such exclusion is enacted through the othering of perpetrators who come to be represented as evil and uncontrolled and through victims who are imagined as a priori morally suspect or deserving of abuse. Because the text covers familiar territory for students, this is an ideal volume to spark discussion in introductory courses in women's studies, cultural studies, and sociology. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General, public, and undergraduate libraries. --M. Gabriela Torres, Wheaton College, MA