Domestic violence beyond representation
Finding a feminist subject in the Allison Baden-Clay murder case
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12690010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Janine Little (0000-0001-5419-9367, Deakin University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-17 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Media Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-0777 • E-ISSN: 1471-5902 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14680777.2018.1546214 |
| OpenAlex | W2905446673 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 30 |
Allison Baden-Clay’s 2012 murder by her husband, Gerard, was the tragic end of years of living with his abuse. It was also one of Australia’s most high-profile news stories over the four years it took for Gerard Baden-Clay to exhaust his legal avenues for appeal. As feminist media scholars argue, the media representation of one victim standing for all is itself contradictory and ideologically invested. This paper explores the representation of this murdered “wife and mother” as a process of gendered subject construction that exceeds media and legal definitions. I argue for a return to this representational subject as a way of accounting for gender ideological work in discourse and beyond. My concern is with Allison’s loss of choice, before and after death, in how her circumstances were disclosed, and how her story shifted from “female tragedy” to her legacy as a “face of family violence.” Following Teresa de Lauretis 1987, I also consider how finding a feminist subject in the margins of stories about this high-profile case can account for the unrepresentability of different forms of loss, and women’s multiple experiences of violence
Appeal · Criminology · Domestic violence · Face (sociological concept · Feminism · Ideology · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Suicide prevention · Tragedy (event · Wife · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender Studies · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Sex work and related issues
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Hearth and Home
Alice Doesn’t
From work with men and boys to changes of social norms and reduction of inequities in gender relations
News Coverage of Violence against Women
Murder, Gender and the Media
Ordinary Affects
Factors Influencing Attitudes to Violence Against Women
Images of power and the feminist fallacy
Signification, representation, ideology
Changing Media Coverage of Violence Against Women
Newsworthy” Victims
Death of the Girl Next Door
Media(ted) Discourse and Society
Can Discourse Analysis Successfully Explain the Content of Media and Journalistic Practice
Framing Deadly Domestic Violence
Family violence happens to everybody’
Framing Domestic Violence Fatalities
Antifeminism and Family Terrorism
Desire in Language
Sexual Ethics, Masculinity and Mutual Vulnerability
Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis
Silent witness
Thinking Through Examples
I'm Not a Victim, She's an Abuser
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |