Da FN's Generalforsamling i 1993 vedtog erklæringen om bekæmpelse af vold mod kvinder, var det første gang, at et FN-dokument havde placeret mænds vold mod kvinder i et køn/magt-perspektiv.
When the UN General Assembly in 1993 adopted the declaration on the elimination of violence against women, it was the first time a UN document had placed men’s violence against women in a gender-power perspective.