Femicide in media
Media in Serbia explain femicide usually as caused by poverty and alcoholism. This style is gender blind and socially stereotyped because of neglected gender aspects of male violence against women. Particular problem is lack of problematizing obvious social “permission” of male violence. Fe...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Victimology Society of Serbia and University of Belgrade, Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation
2014-01-01
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| Series: | Temida |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1450-6637/2014/1450-66371401081M.pdf |
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| Summary: | Media in Serbia explain femicide usually as caused by poverty and alcoholism.
This style is gender blind and socially stereotyped because of neglected
gender aspects of male violence against women. Particular problem is lack of
problematizing obvious social “permission” of male violence. Femicide is
regularly presented as an incident, allegedly impossible for anticipation
rather than tragic epilogue of long lasting male violence against women which
as such exists as a part of traditional gender social relations and roles.
Media overlook that alcohol and poverty may only contribute to
intensification of already existing, widely accepted domination of men and
subordination of women. Media reports as a rule didn’t enter deeper into
problems of institutional and social context in which is perpetrated long
lasting violence as prefacing femicide. Media also never criticize the social
behavior of neighbors, relatives and all others informed on the domestic
violence, but rather avoid „mixing“into privacy matters. Thus violence
escalates without barriers, eventually developed in femicide, murder a woman,
victim of this, decades long lasting violence. |
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| ISSN: | 1450-6637 |