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100			_aFitzGerald, Sharron and Carline, Anna _957710
245			_aProblematising the ‘man problem’ in the domestic abuse act: Discursive co-option and the (in)visibility of gender
260			_aSocial & Legal Studies
300			_a34(5), Oct, 2025: p.714-734
520			_aThis article offers a discourse analysis of domestic abuse's ‘Man Problem’ by combining and developing Naffine's, Foucault's and Bacchi's work in a new way. Taking the parliamentary debates around the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 in England and Wales as our focus, we critique how MPs problematise gender to justify a gender-neutral definition of domestic violence and abuse (DVA). We illustrate how MPs reframe DVA's ‘man problem’ not as the problem of men as perpetrators of violence against women. But rather, they represent the law and policy ‘problem’ as men's invisibility as victims of DVA. We develop a new theoretical innovation to advance our critique: discursive co-option, and we uncover two gender paradoxes. We argue that MPs co-opt gender equality discourses to advance masculinist politics and patriarchal logics in ways that have detrimental effects for the less powerful, and which elide the reality of women's experiences of DVA.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09646639241288528
650			_aDVA, Gender, Discursive co-option, Patriarchy, Masculinism. _957711
773			_aSocial & Legal Studies
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