<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>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.</p></abstract>

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.

The Victimization of Women in the Media: A Discourse on the Victim and Gender Differentiation in Serbia

Institute for Balkan Studies Serbian Academy of Science and Arts

Gender Studies

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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...

The Victimization of Women in the Media: A Discourse on the Victim and Gender Differentiation in Serbia

Published Online: Mar 12, 2019

Page range: 110 - 126

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2019-0010

Keywords
media discourse, retraditionalization, transition, victimization, violence, women

© 2019 Sanja Lazarević Radak, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

The Victimization of Women in the Media: A Discourse on the Victim and Gender Differentiation in Serbia

Published Online: Mar 12, 2019

Page range: 110 - 126

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2019-0010

Keywordsmedia discourse, retraditionalization, transition, victimization, violence, women

© 2019 Sanja Lazarević Radak, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
media discourse, retraditionalization, transition, victimization, violence, women