Discourses on fathers who use intimate partner violence

An example from Icelandic mass media

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ID5718810
AuthorsRannveig Ágústa Guðjónsdóttir (0000-0003-3123-5606, University of Iceland, corresponding author), J I Kjaran (0000-0001-6221-6382, University of Iceland)
Year2023
Volume18
Issue3
Pages207-223
Publication date2023-07-03
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNORMA (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1890-2138 • E-ISSN: 1890-2146
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/18902138.2023.2171661
OpenAlexW4318768081
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited34

Despite an increased interest in studying masculinity in terms of the merging experiences of fatherhood and violence, the way this subject position appears in the media is often left out of the academic debate on fatherhood and masculinity. This paper offers a contribution to extant research on fatherhood and masculinity by providing a discourse analysis of how fathers and violence are constituted in Icelandic mass media from a feminist poststructuralist perspective. Our findings indicate that ‘good and involved’ versus ‘bad and violent’ fathers are framed in the media as two fundamentally different types of fathers. This paper demonstrates the critical role mass media plays in reproducing individualized discourses about IPVAW by presenting fathers who have been violent as a certain type of ‘strange’ and ‘dangerous’ men. Through this representation of fathers who have been violent, the media fails to acknowledge gendered social norms and structures that continue to produce IPV against women and children

Extant taxon · Icelandic · Masculinity · Mass media · Political science · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology

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