Citation

Wendt M. Aust. Fem. Stud. 2012; 27(71): 93-109.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/08164649.2011.621179

PMID

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Abstract

In 2001, the first major study of the extent of men's violence against women in Sweden reported that almost every other woman had been exposed to male violence. This article investigates how this feminist-based survey was negotiated by the press and in national politics. The legitimacy of the investigation was undermined in a number of ways, both in the media and in politics. The report was defined as partial and not as reliable as 'conventional' criminological research. The resistance provoked by the investigation is here interpreted as a way of producing nationalistic notions, where 'Swedishness' is recreated as being woman-friendly, just and equal.