Whether intimate partner violence (IPV) is a gendered phenomenon or not is a question that continuously arouses debate both among scholars and the general public. This article analyses meaning-making around IPV and gender in online discussions that focus on IPV committed by women. The analysis draws upon critical discursive psychology, and identifies ideological dilemmas, interpretative repertoires and subject positions related in the discussions to the relevance of gender, on the one hand, and gender equality, on the other. The ideological dilemmas focused on the relevance of gender revolve around a gender-neutral repertoire and a gendered difference repertoire, while those focused on gender equality centre on the opposing repertoires of gender equality as a commonplace value and gender equality gone wrong. A more detailed examination of how these repertoires are constructed, negotiated, and used in the discussions reveals a pattern where discursive devices such as factualisation techniques are employed in combination with an affectively emphatic style of expression in ways that, for the most part, work to discredit the value of feminist understandings of links between IPV, gender, and power, while, instead, valorising seeming gender neutrality.

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“男人呢？”：关于女性亲密伴侣暴力的在线讨论中的意识形态困境

亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）是否是一种性别现象，是一个不断引起学者和公众争论的问题。本文分析了在线讨论中围绕 IPV 和性别的意义构建，这些讨论侧重于女性所犯的 IPV。该分析借鉴了批判性话语心理学，并确定了与性别相关性和性别平等相关的讨论中的意识形态困境、解释性曲目和主题立场，另一方面。关注性别相关性的意识形态困境围绕着性别中立的曲目和性别差异曲目，而那些关注性别平等的意识形态困境则集中在性别平等作为一种普遍价值和性别平等出错的对立曲目上。