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

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/353e0190-21b1-4dad-bea0-4593916b7d9b