Brittany Ralph
Biographic Data
| ID | 108251 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brittany Ralph |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brittany |
| FAMILY NAME | Ralph |
| SIGNATURE | RALPH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8462-9508 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Understanding Participant (Dis)Engagement From Domestic Violence Perpetrator Group Programs
Men’s behavior change programs are a crucial component of contemporary efforts to address domestic violence, particularly (though not exclusively) across the Global North. Yet studies of program effectiveness consistently report high attrition rates and, importantly, an association between non-completion and recidivism. Scholars are thus increasingly concerned with understanding factors that predict program completion. However, limited research e…
Understanding the Mediating Effect of Child Abuse and Poor Mental Health on the Use of Adolescent Family Violence
There is increasing recognition of the use of family violence by children and young people, and the need to build the evidence base on understanding this form of violence. Adolescent family violence (AFV, also referred to as adolescent violence in the home) refers to the use of violence by a young person against another family member within the home, and can include physical, verbal, emotional, psychological, financial and/or sexual abuse and pro…
Research Handbook on the Sociology of Gender
International audience
Drinking as affective labour
In the public imaginary, drinking is often thought of as a behaviour separate from individuals’ formal labour practices, but studies increasingly highlight the complex ways alcohol is entwined with work. Building on recent conceptual developments in the sociological fields of youth, health and work, we illustrate how drinking can be productively understood as ‘affective labour’, and thus itself a form of work that generates valuable embodied stat…
The destabilising effect of feminist, queer-inclusion and therapeutic counter-discourse
Critically engaging with prevailing theories of change in masculinities, this article offers a feminist poststructuralist account of Australian men's increasingly intimate same-gender friendships. Per Beasley, feminist poststructuralists treat social change as a consequence of contestation between discourses. In line with this, I contend that the increasing influence of feminist, queer-inclusion and therapeutic counter-discourses in recent decade…
Destabilising Masculinism
This book explores Australian men's same-gender friendships and the mechanics of social change in masculinities through a feminist poststructuralist lens.
Looking After Yourself Is Self-Respect”
Notions of masculinity have played a central role in social and cultural research on men’s drinking events. Within this context, masculinity is regularly called on to explain the problematic disparities that mark men’s alcohol consumption, including men’s disproportionate involvement in drinking and a range of alcohol-related harms. More recently, however, researchers have begun to emphasize men’s drinking events as sites of care and support, lea…
Understanding autonomy and relationality in men's lives
Masculinities scholarship tends toward describing autonomy as bound up with hegemonic masculine ideals such as independence, atomization, and self-sufficiency, without fully delving into the concept of autonomy. This article offers a more in-depth conceptual treatment of autonomy, compared to its more simplified rendering in the literature on the dominant relational conceptualizations of masculinities. In doing so, we follow recent calls to avoid…
Absences, presences and unintended consequences in debates about masculinities and social change
This article offers a reply – and an alternative perspective – to Andria Christofidou’s recent contribution to this journal, which critically engages with debates on men, masculinities and social change. We first suggest that understanding change requires us to go beyond pitting theoretical frameworks against one another, and we highlight work that has done this. Second, as our main point, we argue that when bringing in intersectionality as a the…
Navigating the Tensions of Normative Masculinity
Building on research identifying sexting as an important aspect of contemporary youth cultures, this article critically explores the ways that homosocial bonding is bound up with, and produced in the context of, young adult men’s discussions of sexting. Drawing on a focus-group study with 37 undergraduate young men based in Melbourne, Australia, we find both deviations from and continuations with the literature that has emphasised men’s homosocia…
Masculinity
For sociologists, masculinity is not bound up with or innate to male‐sexed bodies. It is a social construct – an ideal image of manhood that is culturally specific and historically variable, but is generally situated in relation to, and characterized by, an absence of femininity. Central to sociological discussions of masculinity is the theorization of men's power, and how this is asserted, enacted against, or obtained at the expense of women, ot…
One Small Step for Man
While recent scholarship has documented a growth of same-sex, nonsexual kissing among young men in Western societies, this may reflect a weakening, rather than complete transformation, of hegemonic gender structures. Critically engaging with current theorizing of 'inclusive masculinities,' this article reports the findings from a study of young Australian men's views on what constitutes acceptable forms of homosocial intimacy and how they attach …
Understanding autonomy and relationality in men's lives
Masculinities scholarship tends toward describing autonomy as bound up with hegemonic masculine ideals such as independence, atomization, and self-sufficiency, without fully delving into the concept of autonomy. This article offers a more in-depth conceptual treatment of autonomy, compared to its more simplified rendering in the literature on the dominant relational conceptualizations of masculinities. In doing so, we follow recent calls to avoid…
One Small Step for Man
While recent scholarship has documented a growth of same-sex, nonsexual kissing among young men in Western societies, this may reflect a weakening, rather than complete transformation, of hegemonic gender structures. Critically engaging with current theorizing of 'inclusive masculinities,' this article reports the findings from a study of young Australian men's views on what constitutes acceptable forms of homosocial intimacy and how they attach …
Absences, presences and unintended consequences in debates about masculinities and social change
This article offers a reply – and an alternative perspective – to Andria Christofidou’s recent contribution to this journal, which critically engages with debates on men, masculinities and social change. We first suggest that understanding change requires us to go beyond pitting theoretical frameworks against one another, and we highlight work that has done this. Second, as our main point, we argue that when bringing in intersectionality as a the…
Navigating the Tensions of Normative Masculinity
Building on research identifying sexting as an important aspect of contemporary youth cultures, this article critically explores the ways that homosocial bonding is bound up with, and produced in the context of, young adult men’s discussions of sexting. Drawing on a focus-group study with 37 undergraduate young men based in Melbourne, Australia, we find both deviations from and continuations with the literature that has emphasised men’s homosocia…
The destabilising effect of feminist, queer-inclusion and therapeutic counter-discourse
Critically engaging with prevailing theories of change in masculinities, this article offers a feminist poststructuralist account of Australian men's increasingly intimate same-gender friendships. Per Beasley, feminist poststructuralists treat social change as a consequence of contestation between discourses. In line with this, I contend that the increasing influence of feminist, queer-inclusion and therapeutic counter-discourses in recent decade…
Drinking as affective labour
In the public imaginary, drinking is often thought of as a behaviour separate from individuals’ formal labour practices, but studies increasingly highlight the complex ways alcohol is entwined with work. Building on recent conceptual developments in the sociological fields of youth, health and work, we illustrate how drinking can be productively understood as ‘affective labour’, and thus itself a form of work that generates valuable embodied stat…
Masculinity
For sociologists, masculinity is not bound up with or innate to male‐sexed bodies. It is a social construct – an ideal image of manhood that is culturally specific and historically variable, but is generally situated in relation to, and characterized by, an absence of femininity. Central to sociological discussions of masculinity is the theorization of men's power, and how this is asserted, enacted against, or obtained at the expense of women, ot…
One Small Step for Man
While recent scholarship has documented a growth of same-sex, nonsexual kissing among young men in Western societies, this may reflect a weakening, rather than complete transformation, of hegemonic gender structures. Critically engaging with current theorizing of 'inclusive masculinities,' this article reports the findings from a study of young Australian men's views on what constitutes acceptable forms of homosocial intimacy and how they attach …
Absences, presences and unintended consequences in debates about masculinities and social change
This article offers a reply – and an alternative perspective – to Andria Christofidou’s recent contribution to this journal, which critically engages with debates on men, masculinities and social change. We first suggest that understanding change requires us to go beyond pitting theoretical frameworks against one another, and we highlight work that has done this. Second, as our main point, we argue that when bringing in intersectionality as a the…
Navigating the Tensions of Normative Masculinity
Building on research identifying sexting as an important aspect of contemporary youth cultures, this article critically explores the ways that homosocial bonding is bound up with, and produced in the context of, young adult men’s discussions of sexting. Drawing on a focus-group study with 37 undergraduate young men based in Melbourne, Australia, we find both deviations from and continuations with the literature that has emphasised men’s homosocia…
Looking After Yourself Is Self-Respect”
Notions of masculinity have played a central role in social and cultural research on men’s drinking events. Within this context, masculinity is regularly called on to explain the problematic disparities that mark men’s alcohol consumption, including men’s disproportionate involvement in drinking and a range of alcohol-related harms. More recently, however, researchers have begun to emphasize men’s drinking events as sites of care and support, lea…
Understanding autonomy and relationality in men's lives
Masculinities scholarship tends toward describing autonomy as bound up with hegemonic masculine ideals such as independence, atomization, and self-sufficiency, without fully delving into the concept of autonomy. This article offers a more in-depth conceptual treatment of autonomy, compared to its more simplified rendering in the literature on the dominant relational conceptualizations of masculinities. In doing so, we follow recent calls to avoid…
Destabilising Masculinism
This book explores Australian men's same-gender friendships and the mechanics of social change in masculinities through a feminist poststructuralist lens.
Research Handbook on the Sociology of Gender
International audience
Drinking as affective labour
In the public imaginary, drinking is often thought of as a behaviour separate from individuals’ formal labour practices, but studies increasingly highlight the complex ways alcohol is entwined with work. Building on recent conceptual developments in the sociological fields of youth, health and work, we illustrate how drinking can be productively understood as ‘affective labour’, and thus itself a form of work that generates valuable embodied stat…
The destabilising effect of feminist, queer-inclusion and therapeutic counter-discourse
Critically engaging with prevailing theories of change in masculinities, this article offers a feminist poststructuralist account of Australian men's increasingly intimate same-gender friendships. Per Beasley, feminist poststructuralists treat social change as a consequence of contestation between discourses. In line with this, I contend that the increasing influence of feminist, queer-inclusion and therapeutic counter-discourses in recent decade…
Understanding Participant (Dis)Engagement From Domestic Violence Perpetrator Group Programs
Men’s behavior change programs are a crucial component of contemporary efforts to address domestic violence, particularly (though not exclusively) across the Global North. Yet studies of program effectiveness consistently report high attrition rates and, importantly, an association between non-completion and recidivism. Scholars are thus increasingly concerned with understanding factors that predict program completion. However, limited research e…
Understanding the Mediating Effect of Child Abuse and Poor Mental Health on the Use of Adolescent Family Violence
There is increasing recognition of the use of family violence by children and young people, and the need to build the evidence base on understanding this form of violence. Adolescent family violence (AFV, also referred to as adolescent violence in the home) refers to the use of violence by a young person against another family member within the home, and can include physical, verbal, emotional, psychological, financial and/or sexual abuse and pro…
Sociology (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Masculinity (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (3 works)