From "violence against women" to "violence against women and girls". The reconceptualisation of violence against women in United-Nations discourse

Célia Atzeni (1)

1 CLILLAC-ARP (URP_3967) - Centre de Linguistique Inter-langues, de Lexicologie, de Linguistique Anglaise et de Corpus

The aim of this paper is to discuss the reconceptualisation of violence against women in the United-Nations discourse on violence against women between 1996 and 2019. The paper relies on a corpus-based approach to discourse analysis and argues that the term "violence against women and girls" became the United-Nations' preferred term to discuss the issue of violence against women in their press releases because of a shift in the feminist theorisation of the concept of "violence against women" and the influence of the geopolitical context of the 2000's and beginning of the 2010's.

Mots clés: discourse analysis; international; United-Nations; violence against women; corpus analysis; textometry; diachrony

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Linguistique; Etudes sur le genre

Célia Atzeni. From "violence against women" to "violence against women and girls". The reconceptualisation of violence against women in United-Nations discourse. The European English Messenger, 2022. ⟨hal-03587067⟩