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dc.contributor.authorHowe, Adrianen
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-30T23:00:46Z-
dc.date.available2022-06-30T23:00:46Z-
dc.date.issued2006en
dc.identifier.citation3 (1), February 1997en
dc.identifier.issn1077-8012en
dc.identifier.urihttps://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/12570-
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherSage Publicationsen
dc.subjectCommunity attitudesen
dc.subjectRepresentations of womenen
dc.titleThe war against women: media representations of men's violence against women in Australiaen
dc.title.alternativeViolence against womenen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.catalogid960en
dc.subject.keywordJournal article/research paperen
dc.subject.keywordnew_recorden
dc.subject.keywordNationalen
dc.description.notesGeneral overview: This article looks at the way in which an Australian newspaper, 'The Age', published in Melbourne, represented men's violence against women and children in a 3-week series titled '<i>The War Against Women'</I> in 1993.<br/ ><br/ >Method: The series are analysed from a Foucauldian perspective (a question of power / knowledge on exploring how the issue of men's violence against women and children, is being 'put into discourse' or represented in the mainstream media).<br/ ><br/ >Discussion: It discusses how the series responded with shock at the "new" discovery of statistics and reports indicating wide-spread domestic violence and sexual assaults in Victoria. The effect was to reinscribe its critique of men's violence against women within hegemonic discourse of gender relations in which feminists vilify men, women acquiesce in domestic violence, and men as a group are not to be held accountable for a small, out-of-ordinary minority. <p.<br/ >Conclusions: The series' message was one of helplessness, that is, domestic violence is a war that cannot be won. The media appropriated feminist knowledge and activism against men's violence by translating it into material that could be acceptable for a mainstream readership.en
dc.identifier.sourceViolence against womenen
dc.date.entered2007-02-28en
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