Citation

Murray S, Powell A. Violence Against Women 2009; 15(5): 532-552.

Affiliation

RMIT University.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801209331408

PMID

19208919

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.

Language: en