Gender-based violence in discourse.

Autor(en)
Birgit Wolf
Abstrakt

Considering the efforts to resolve the widespread societal phenomenon of violence against
women, awareness-raising and the role of the media comprise one of the key targets by
the most important international agreements to combat it. The women’s anti-violence
movement since the 1970s has made essential contributions to the recognition of violence
against women as a human rights violation and is a crucial player in the field of
violence prevention. Its anti-violence initiatives are of major importance. Looking at the
media in general, we can observe how different programmes and formats depict similar
(visual) narratives of clichéd imagination on intimate partner violence, whereas the systemic
nature of the problem mostly remains hidden (Bonilla Campos, 2008; Boyle, 2005;
Geiger, 2008; López Díez, 2005; Taylor, 2009; Wolf, 2013a, b). This lack of clarity is
hindering the comprehension of gender-based violence as a societal phenomenon.
The imagery disseminated by the women’s anti-violence movement and institutionalised
entities constitutes the core subject of this article, in order to obtain insights into
the supposed alternative representations appropriate to contrast the ‘malestream’ media
on the subject. Their contributions to visual discourse through European-wide, Spanish
and Austrian anti-violence initiatives are analysed from 2007 to 2011 - before the Istanbul
Convention came into force. As the social roots and the transposition of the complexity
of gender-based violence constitute a rather ambiguous undertaking, the analysis aims
to disclose how anti-violence initiatives shape the social accounts of male-to-female partner
violence, identifying good practice examples and underlying ideological concepts.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
Journal
Anàlisi. Quaderns de Comunicació i Cultura
Band
59
Seiten
1-27
Anzahl der Seiten
27
ISSN
0211-2175
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/analisi.3164
Publikationsdatum
2018
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
508007 Kommunikationswissenschaft, 508014 Publizistik
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Cultural Studies, Communication
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 16 – Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen, SDG 5 – Geschlechtergleichheit
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