Obscuring Gendered Difference

The Treatment of Violence in Australian Government Alcohol Policy

Bibliographic Data

ID12425851
AuthorsD Duncan (0000-0003-3408-6669, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University , Australia, corresponding author), David Moore (0000-0002-5860-3109, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University , Australia), Helen Keane (0000-0002-6042-306X, Australian National University), Mats Ekendahl (0000-0003-2295-4078, Stockholm University)
Year2020
Volume29
Issue3
Pages1057-1079
Publication date2020-11-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1072-4745 • E-ISSN: 1468-2893
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/sp/jxaa038
OpenAlexW4252321507
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited58

Despite public debate about alcohol and public violence among young people in Australia, the issue of masculinities or gender is rarely visible in alcohol policy. Instead, policy recommendations aimed at reducing violence focus on changing the availability and consumption of alcohol. Drawing on concepts from feminist and science and technology studies scholarship, this article analyses how “alcohol-related violence” is constituted as a specific policy object, and how it coheres to obscure men’s contributions to and experiences of violence. Attention to the political effects of these policy practices is necessary for the development of more equitable alcohol policies

Alcohol · Alcohol consumption · Criminology · Environmental health · Government (linguistics · Object (grammar · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Public policy · Scholarship · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Medicine · Youth Development and Social Support · Gender Studies · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Law