FOR THE SAKE OF FAMILY AND RELIGION. NATIONALIST-RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE ON THE CONVENTION ON PREVENTING AND COMBATING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

• Authors: Marta Warat
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article focuses on the current wave of the cultural war in Poland which was triggered after the government’s decision to ratify the European Council Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence. It examines the conservative, nationalist-religious discourse present in two daily mainstream Polish newspapers, Gazeta Wyborcza and Rzeczpospolita. This article begins with a description of the position of the Catholic Church in Poland, its role and main discursive strategies used in the debate on the Convention. Then it underlines the significance of the nationalist-religious discourse for developing gender equality policies, focusing on an essentialist vision of feminity and masculinity, importance of the family as a private matter and an influential force and diversion from cultural and structural factors that foster violence. 

Keywords

EN

gender wars, Convention on preventing and combating violence against women, nationalist-religious discourse, gender equality policies

• Publisher: AGH University of Science and Technology
• Journal: Studia Humanistyczne AGH
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 3

Dates

published

2016

online

2017-01-15

Contributors

author

Marta Warat

Identifiers

DOI

10.7494/human.2016.15.3.105-121