The Victimization of Women in the Media: A Discourse on the Victim and Gender Differentiation in Serbia
Over the past five years violence against women has been growing in Serbia. However, the aim of this paper is not to explore the reasons for the violence itself, but the way it is presented in the media. In this paper, representations of domestic violence are analysed by focusing on the image of wom...
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| description | Over the past five years violence against women has been growing in Serbia. However, the aim of this paper is not to explore the reasons for the violence itself, but the way it is presented in the media. In this paper, representations of domestic violence are analysed by focusing on the image of women in newspapers, TV shows and film. Therefore, my intention is to examine: 1. How the media manipulate through the construct of gender; 2. The ways in which the media deepen gender differentiation and construct women as a weaker, inferior subject. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a786255831fd4c34ad9c1281de6d4ad42022-12-21T21:57:53ZengSciendoGender Studies2286-01342018-12-0117111012610.2478/genst-2019-0010genst-2019-0010The Victimization of Women in the Media: A Discourse on the Victim and Gender Differentiation in SerbiaRadak Sanja Lazarević0Institute for Balkan Studies Serbian Academy of Science and Arts 35/4 Knez Mihailova BelgradeOver the past five years violence against women has been growing in Serbia. However, the aim of this paper is not to explore the reasons for the violence itself, but the way it is presented in the media. In this paper, representations of domestic violence are analysed by focusing on the image of women in newspapers, TV shows and film. Therefore, my intention is to examine: 1. How the media manipulate through the construct of gender; 2. The ways in which the media deepen gender differentiation and construct women as a weaker, inferior subject.http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/genst.2019.17.issue-1/genst-2019-0010/genst-2019-0010.xml?format=INTmedia discourseretraditionalizationtransitionvictimizationviolencewomen |
| spellingShingle | Radak Sanja Lazarević The Victimization of Women in the Media: A Discourse on the Victim and Gender Differentiation in Serbia Gender Studies media discourse retraditionalization transition victimization violence women |
| title | The Victimization of Women in the Media: A Discourse on the Victim and Gender Differentiation in Serbia |
| title_full | The Victimization of Women in the Media: A Discourse on the Victim and Gender Differentiation in Serbia |
| title_fullStr | The Victimization of Women in the Media: A Discourse on the Victim and Gender Differentiation in Serbia |
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| title_short | The Victimization of Women in the Media: A Discourse on the Victim and Gender Differentiation in Serbia |
| title_sort | victimization of women in the media a discourse on the victim and gender differentiation in serbia |
| topic | media discourse retraditionalization transition victimization violence women |
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