Családon belüli erőszak: kiről szól?
Domestic Violence: Whose Problem?

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines how domestic violence, a policy issue originally brought on the agenda by women’s rights proponents as a gender equality related problem, has been framed and re-framed under the influence of mainstream policy-makers. Th is paper juxtaposes shifts in prevailing frames concerning domestic violence in Hungary, the Netherlands, and the EU. The analysis shows that in the selected policy environments, shifts in the gender of governance, particularly the marginalisation of feminist NGO voices in the debates, have lead to shifts in the governance of gender, specifically with respect to domestic violence. The shift has caused the marginalisation or even neglect of gender-equality considerations in addressing domestic violence, or brought the integration of gender-equality within a wider, more inclusive perspective, thereby going beyond gender-specific interests. We argue that these shifts have taken away from women’s rights proponents the privileged position to speak on the issue of domestic violence, and affirmed the cross societal nature of the issue thereby establishing the interests of other members of society to speak out on it.

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