Title |
“What's the Problem?”
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Published in |
Violence Against Women, January 2009
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DOI | 10.1177/1077801209331408 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Suellen Murray, Anastasia Powell |
Abstract |
The campaign of feminists to have domestic violence formally acknowledged as a key issue affecting Australian women succeeded in the early 1980s when governments began developing policy seeking to address the problem. Far from simply adopting feminist gendered understandings of domestic violence, however, the development of contemporary policy responses to this issue has been influenced by a number of competing discourses about the problem, its causes, and possible solutions. Drawing on Bacchi's policy analysis approach, the authors compare the discursive constructions of domestic violence inherent in how the issue is named, framed, and defined across contemporary Australian policy documents. |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Italy | 1 | 1% |
South Africa | 1 | 1% |
Switzerland | 1 | 1% |
Australia | 1 | 1% |
Unknown | 84 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 20% |
Student > Master | 12 | 14% |
Student > Bachelor | 11 | 13% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 10% |
Researcher | 9 | 10% |
Other | 15 | 17% |
Unknown | 14 | 16% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Social Sciences | 36 | 41% |
Psychology | 14 | 16% |
Arts and Humanities | 7 | 8% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 7% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 2 | 2% |
Other | 6 | 7% |
Unknown | 17 | 19% |