This dissertation explores the gendered newspaper reporting on Intimate Partner Homicide in the UK, utilising contextual discourses of masculinity in re/producing these reporting trends. Drawing on the findings from content analyses of two case studies, involving the murders of Claire and Charlotte Hart, and Emma and Lettie Pattison, by their respective husbands and fathers, the dissertation outlines how the newspaper reporting on these cases intervenes in the gendered structure(s) in which they are situated. Using the theories of masculinity which are relevant in the UK, this project highlights that the reporting of Intimate Partner Homicide is influenced by constructions of masculinity. The dissertation found that, under the guise of achieving masculinity, men are socialised into violence, which manifests itself in Violence Against Women and Girls. The research aims to illustrate how this relationship between masculinity and violence produces the gendered reporting trends and is simultaneously reinforced by them in cyclical tandem. The findings from this research project can be used to challenge the association between masculinity and violence and disrupt the systemic violence that women and girls experience as a result of this inextricable link.
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