The Victimization of Women in the Media: A Discourse on the Victim and Gender Differentiation in Serbia

Abstract

Over the past five years violence against women has been growing in Serbia. However, the aim of this paper is not to explore the reasons for the violence itself, but the way it is presented in the media. In this paper, representations of domestic violence are analysed by focusing on the image of women in newspapers, TV shows and film. Therefore, my intention is to examine: 1. How the media manipulate through the construct of gender; 2. The ways in which the media deepen gender differentiation and construct women as a weaker, inferior subject.

Keywords

• media discourse
• retraditionalization
• transition
• victimization
• violence
• women