| dc.description.abstract | The 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action developed at the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women acknowledged the media as a vital arena for the advancement of women’s equality. More than 25 years later, it is clear that structural inequalities within journalism and the media continue to shape representations of women and thus gender equality. From this starting point, this article examines how images are used in print media reporting on femicide within intimate relationships. It asks how newspapers have visualised incidents of femicide, how it shapes narratives and understandings of domestic violence, and what it means for women’s equality. Drawing on two examples from the media in the United Kingdom and Italy, this article compares the visual representation of femicide in the printed press as a means of understanding core principles of cultural and political narratives (visual and written) when relaying reports on femicide in both countries. | en_US |
