Murray Suellen, Powell Anastasia
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Violence Against Women. 2009 May;15(5):532-52. doi: 10.1177/1077801209331408. Epub 2009 Feb 10.
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.
20世纪80年代初，女权主义者推动将家庭暴力正式承认为影响澳大利亚女性的关键问题的运动取得了成功，当时政府开始制定旨在解决这一问题的政策。然而，当代针对这一问题的政策回应的发展，远非简单地采纳女权主义对家庭暴力的性别化理解，而是受到了关于该问题、其成因及可能解决方案的一系列相互竞争的话语的影响。作者借鉴巴奇的政策分析方法，比较了当代澳大利亚政策文件中对家庭暴力问题的命名、框架构建和定义方式所固有的话语建构。
