Author, as appears in the article.: Comas d¿Argemir, D

Department: Antropologia, Filosofia i Treball Social

URV's Author/s: COMAS D'ARGEMIR CENDRA, MARIA DOLORS

Keywords: social construction of news partner violence against women Domestic violence

Abstract: Partner violence against women in Spain is now no longer regarded as an individual issue but a public problem. This article discusses the role of the media in this process. It analyses the news programmes broadcast by different television stations in Catalonia and shows that the news focuses on partner violence against women as a public problem. It argues that the frame of the news is not only a media issue; it is also connected to the social and political context. The feminist movement has played an essential role in the struggle against partner violence against women, but it is argued here that society¿s intense rejection of this sort of violence and the magnitude of the public policies that have been implemented in Spain could not be explained without the particular involvement of the media.

Research group: Grup d'Investigacions en Antropologia

Thematic Areas: Anthropology Antropología Antropologia

Author's mail: dolors.comasdargemir@urv.cat

ISSN: 0267-3231

Author identifier: 0000-0002-0385-0436

Record's date: 2019-03-01

Last page: 136

Journal volume: 30

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

Link to the original source: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0267323114544865

Article's DOI: 10.1177/0267323114544865

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2015

First page: 121

Publication Type: Article Artículo Article