The main issue of violence against women is global and complex. Argentina enacted in 2009 the Act No. 26,485 with the goal to prevent, punish and eradicate gender violence. In this paper, we analyze the Argentine media view about the construction of this Act. We understand that the media opinion is fundamental to understand this issue and to be able to eradicate it. However, the article presents, among its main goal, positions ranging from the politically correct to the circumvention. We have studied the gender perspective and the
<p><strong>Resumen </strong></p><p>El artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación colectiva que tuvo como propósito analizar, desde una mirada crítica y de género/feminista, narrativas periodísticas, discursos y sentidos en disputa expresados por medios gráficos de la provincia de Mendoza, Argentina, sobre distintas problemáticas de género como la violencia contra las mujeres. Entre otros hallazgos, a través del análisis cuanti-cualitativo de las construcciones noticiosas, el trabajo revela de qué manera la agenda de los temas de género ha quedado subsumida a la problemática de la violencia de género/femicidios tratada desde el punto de vista policial. La espectacularización a través de diferentes herramientas como la personalización, la descontextualización y la dramatización, se ha convertido en un mecanismo recurrente en la construcción de tales informaciones.</p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>The article presents the results of a collective research that had the purpose of analyzing, from a critical and gender / feminist perspective, journalistic narratives, discourses and senses in dispute expressed by graphic media of the province of Mendoza, Argentina, on different topics of gender such as violence against women. Among other findings, through the quantitative-qualitative analysis of news constructions, the paper reveals how the agenda of gender topics has been subsumed to the problem of gender violence / femicide treated from the police point of view. The spectacularization, through different tools such as personalization, decontextualization and dramatization, has become a recurrent mechanism in the construction of this information.</p>
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