Kate Gleeson
Biographic Data
| ID | 223184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Gleeson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | Gleeson |
| SIGNATURE | GLEESON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2539-5910 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Public Awareness in Australia About Coercive Control in the Context of Intimate Partner Relationships
Coercive control (CC) involves an ongoing pattern of behaviour that can occur within intimate partner violence with the aim of controlling, containing, or compelling a person, with deleterious long‐term effects. This study addresses an evidence gap using Lagdon, Jordan, Devine, Tully, Armour and Shannon (2023: Journal of Family Violence 38, no. 1: 39–50) methodological approach to assess the Australian public awareness about CC. Participants revi…
A secular society with segments of religious power: Ex-religious Australians’ views of religion and state
Religion and politics after marriage equality in Australia: Contemporary Challenges in the Politics of Religious Freedom
The passage of marriage equality via the Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Act 2017 ushered in a new era for religion and politics in Australia. The polarised public debate that was provoked in the lead-up to the legislation continued and only served to entrench the perceived incompatibility of religious freedom and LGBTIQ+ rights. The articles in this Symposium responding to these developments were first presented as works-i…
Post-exercise Cold Water Immersion Does Not Improve Subsequent 4-km Cycling Time-Trial Compared With Passive and Active Recovery in Normothermia
Background: We investigated whether a brief cold water immersion between two cycling time trials (TT) improves the performance of the latter compared with passive and active recovery in normothermic conditions (~20°C). Methods: In Experiment 1 10 active participants (4 women) completed two 4-km TT (Ex1 and Ex2, each preceded by a 12 min moderate-intensity warm-up) separated by a 15 min recovery period consisting of: (a) passive rest (PAS) or (b) …
Confronting the past and changing the future? Public inquiries into institutional child abuse, Ireland and Australia
This article uses the framework of transitional justice to examine two prominent examples of national public inquiries into institutional child abuse: the Irish Commission into Child Abuse of 2000–09 and the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse of 2013–2017. It provides a detailed account of the practical workings of each inquiry in the context of the Irish and Australian political and legal environments,…
Refining the National Family: Children’s Institutions and Their Aftermath, Ireland and Australia
In Ireland and Australia, survivors of historical institutional child abuse have achieved significantly different outcomes of financial redress paid by the government. This article explores the historical, political conditions related to different modes of colonialism that shaped survivors’ experiences of institutionalisation in the twentieth century in each country, and their ramifications for contemporary campaigns for the national redress of c…
Confiding in others: Exploring the experiences of young people who have been in care
In the general population, confiding is typically associated with increased well-being, reduced distress and strengthened relationships. However, there is a lack of research exploring the role of confiding among young people who have been in the care system. The current study employed Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to guide the analysis of semi-structured interviews with eight young people with a range of care experiences, looking…
Sex Crimes in the Fifties
Sex Crimes in the Fifties. By Lisa Featherstone and Amanda Kaladelfos (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2016), pp.xii + 243, AU$59.99 (pb)
An idiographic analysis of women’s accounts of living with mental health conditions in Haredi Jewish communities
This research examines the reported experiences of women who developed mental health conditions while they were members of Haredi Jewish communities. The research focuses on how their communities responded and how these responses affected their self-evaluations and relationships with their communities. A qualitative, idiographic approach was used. Four women were recruited through mental health charities and an online group for former community m…
A Woman’s Work is… Unfinished Business: Justice for the Disappeared Magdalen Women of Modern Ireland
Unpaid wages: The experiences of Irish Magdalene Laundries and Indigenous Australians
This paper will evaluate the obstacles faced by victim-survivors of historical abuse, particularly victim-survivors of forced labour in Magdalene Laundries in Ireland and the stolen wages of Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, in a post-colonial transitional justice framework. First, the paper identifies challenges in contextualising comparative interdisciplinary historical research in terms of transitional justice. Second, the pap…
Exceptional Sexual Harms: The Catholic Church and Child Sexual Abuse Claims in Australia
Questioning of Catholic Church leaders in the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has revealed a distinct sense of immunity and lack of responsibility for the crimes of church personnel, which has resulted in stymied justice for complainants in sexual abuse lawsuits. In this article, I explore this immunity by examining it in the context of treatments of sexual harms in other areas of private law, partic…
Why the Continuous Failures in Justice for Australian Victims and Survivors of Catholic Clerical Child Sexual Abuse
This brief comment explores the significance of a number of current lawsuits brought against Catholic Church leaders in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, in the context of enduring failures of justice for Australian victims of Catholic clerical child sexual abuse. It examines the obstacles to criminal and civil justice that have prevented Church superiors from being held to account for child sexual abuse perpetrated in Catholic institutions, and exp…
The Money Problem: Reparation and Restorative Justice in the Catholic Church's Towards Healing Program
Towards Healing is a restorative justice program for addressing complaints of sexual and other child abuse committed by clergy and other members of the Catholic Church. The program is upheld by the Church as leading the world in providing restorative and therapeutic justice. This article examines Towards Healing from the perspective of restorative justice standards and questions the potential for restorative justice to function in regard to Catho…
Graceful Remedies: Understanding Grace in the Catholic Church's Treatment of Clerical Child Sexual Abuse
This article examines advocacy of Catholic restorative justice for clerical child sexual abuse from the standpoint of feminist criminological critiques of the use of restorative mediation in sexual offence cases. In particular, it questions the Catholic invocation of grace and forgiveness of survivors of abuse in light of critical feminist concerns about the exploitation of emotions in restorative practices, especially in regard to sexual and oth…
Feminist Contributions to Justice for Survivors of Clerical Child Sexual Abuse
The scandal of systemic institutionalised child abuse by clergy and other church personnel continues to unfold across the globe with unremitting effect. Northern Ireland is the latest among a numbe
From Suck magazine to Corporate Paedophilia. Feminism and pornography — Remembering the Australian way
A Voice for the Injured: Bettina Arndt and Australian Family Law
This article analyses the nature and effect of the campaign against the Family Court led by social commentator Bettina Arndt from 1995 to 2006, in the context of the men's rights agenda and the politics of anti-feminist backlash. It documents the changes to Australian family law and the workings of the Family Court under the Howard government, as a result of this campaign, in order to understand the politics of backlash in the context of Wendy Br…
Qualitative Research Methods in Mental Health and Psychotherapy: A Guide for Students and Practitioners
This book provides a user-friendly introduction to the qualitative methods most commonly used in the mental health and psychotherapy arena. Chapters are written by leading researchers and the editors are experienced qualitative researchers, clinical trainers, and mental health practitioners. Provides chapter-by-chapter guidance on conducting a qualitative study from across a range of approaches. Offers guidance on how to review and appraise exist…
Captured (and disturbing for some): A last look at the abortionist
Tony Abbott and Abortion: Miscalculating the Strength of the Religious Right
In the context of analyses of the rise of the religious right, this article examines the passage and outcomes of the ‘abortion debate’ from 2004 to 2006. It analyses the reasons for the then Health Minister Tony Abbott's pursuit of the issue, and his strategies to place abortion on the public agenda, through his encouragement of church lobbies and conservative allies in parliament. Although it is commonly argued that the influence of right-wing C…
Paperback Abortion: Freakonomics, Market Populism AndthatAbortion-and-Crime Theory
In 2005 Freakonomics popularised the abortion-and-crime theory based on the microeconomic model of fertility control that was buoyed by the phenomenal ubiquity of market populism at the time. In its massive popularity, the book filled the popular bandwidth with a simple caricature of abortion as an individual economic preference, the demand for which might simply be switched on or off by the prevailing market conditions of the day. This, potentia…
The Psychosocial Impact of Epidermolysis Bullosa
Epidermolysis bullosa (EB) is a disease in which the skin blisters in response to minimal friction, causing painful wounds. Despite the potentially severe nature of epidermolysis bullosa, research on the psychosocial issues is scarce. The aims of the study were to explore the psychosocial impact of epidermolysis bullosa on affected adults and to identify associated support needs. We collected data using semistructured interviews and employed indu…
Mixed Methods in Health Psychology: Theoretical and Practical Considerations of the Third Paradigm
This article has two purposes: to examine why mixed methods is a legitimate approach particularly well suited to health psychology; and to describe the challenges inherent in conducting mixed methods research. First, arguments justifying the status of mixed methods as a third paradigm alongside solely quantitative and qualitative frameworks are discussed. Second, a qualitatively driven model of mixed methods is illustrated using examples from a r…
Resisting Homosexual Law Reform in Britain in the 1950s: The Passions of Earl Winterton
The Sixth Earl Winterton was an eccentric who is too easily dismissed as a homophobe and bigoted critic of the reforms proposed in the Wolfenden Report. But his outbursts in the Parliament against homosexuality point to his personal concerns for British masculinity and to an alternative understanding of masculinity that has received scant attention in the assessment of gay law reforms initiated by Wolfenden. Sociologists insist that the main func…
Clothing and Embodiment: Men Managing Body Image and Appearance
Individualisation and inequalities in health: A Qualitative Study of Class Identity and Health
The Television Audience: A Reconsideration of the Taken-for-Granted Terms `Active', `Social' and `Critical'
This paper addresses recent debates concerning the conceptualization of the television audience and the viewing context. It re-examines concepts that have acquired `commonsense' status within media studies, for example, `active', `social', `context' and `critical'. These concepts are discussed in relation to illustrative extracts from audience discussions of the drama-documentary, Who Bombed Birmingham? Twelve group discussions were carried out f…
(De)constructing Body Image
The reification of body image leads to unarticulated ideological and conceptual assumptions that obscure the most dynamic and productive features of the construct. These assumptions are that body image: (1) 'exists'; (2) is a socially mediated product of perception; (3) is 'internal' and 'of the individual'; (4) can be treated and measured as if real; and (5) individuals' respond to body image measures as if neutrally providing information about …
Mixed Methods in Health Psychology: Theoretical and Practical Considerations of the Third Paradigm
This article has two purposes: to examine why mixed methods is a legitimate approach particularly well suited to health psychology; and to describe the challenges inherent in conducting mixed methods research. First, arguments justifying the status of mixed methods as a third paradigm alongside solely quantitative and qualitative frameworks are discussed. Second, a qualitatively driven model of mixed methods is illustrated using examples from a r…
Tony Abbott and Abortion: Miscalculating the Strength of the Religious Right
In the context of analyses of the rise of the religious right, this article examines the passage and outcomes of the ‘abortion debate’ from 2004 to 2006. It analyses the reasons for the then Health Minister Tony Abbott's pursuit of the issue, and his strategies to place abortion on the public agenda, through his encouragement of church lobbies and conservative allies in parliament. Although it is commonly argued that the influence of right-wing C…
Religion and politics after marriage equality in Australia: Contemporary Challenges in the Politics of Religious Freedom
The passage of marriage equality via the Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Act 2017 ushered in a new era for religion and politics in Australia. The polarised public debate that was provoked in the lead-up to the legislation continued and only served to entrench the perceived incompatibility of religious freedom and LGBTIQ+ rights. The articles in this Symposium responding to these developments were first presented as works-i…
From Suck magazine to Corporate Paedophilia. Feminism and pornography — Remembering the Australian way
Confiding in others: Exploring the experiences of young people who have been in care
In the general population, confiding is typically associated with increased well-being, reduced distress and strengthened relationships. However, there is a lack of research exploring the role of confiding among young people who have been in the care system. The current study employed Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to guide the analysis of semi-structured interviews with eight young people with a range of care experiences, looking…
Dressing the Body: The Role of Clothing in Sustaining Body Pride and Managing Body Distress
This qualitative research extends current theorizing on behavioural strategies for managing body distress by exploring how women manage body image through clothing practices. Eighty two women reported their subjective understanding of how body evaluation and clothing practices are interconnected in response to open-ended questionnaires. Thematic analysis of responses revealed that clothing practices are a mundane and agentic part of the adjustive…
Exceptional Sexual Harms: The Catholic Church and Child Sexual Abuse Claims in Australia
Questioning of Catholic Church leaders in the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has revealed a distinct sense of immunity and lack of responsibility for the crimes of church personnel, which has resulted in stymied justice for complainants in sexual abuse lawsuits. In this article, I explore this immunity by examining it in the context of treatments of sexual harms in other areas of private law, partic…
Paperback Abortion: Freakonomics, Market Populism AndthatAbortion-and-Crime Theory
In 2005 Freakonomics popularised the abortion-and-crime theory based on the microeconomic model of fertility control that was buoyed by the phenomenal ubiquity of market populism at the time. In its massive popularity, the book filled the popular bandwidth with a simple caricature of abortion as an individual economic preference, the demand for which might simply be switched on or off by the prevailing market conditions of the day. This, potentia…
Refining the National Family: Children’s Institutions and Their Aftermath, Ireland and Australia
In Ireland and Australia, survivors of historical institutional child abuse have achieved significantly different outcomes of financial redress paid by the government. This article explores the historical, political conditions related to different modes of colonialism that shaped survivors’ experiences of institutionalisation in the twentieth century in each country, and their ramifications for contemporary campaigns for the national redress of c…
A Voice for the Injured: Bettina Arndt and Australian Family Law
This article analyses the nature and effect of the campaign against the Family Court led by social commentator Bettina Arndt from 1995 to 2006, in the context of the men's rights agenda and the politics of anti-feminist backlash. It documents the changes to Australian family law and the workings of the Family Court under the Howard government, as a result of this campaign, in order to understand the politics of backlash in the context of Wendy Br…
Captured (and disturbing for some): A last look at the abortionist
The Psychosocial Impact of Epidermolysis Bullosa
Epidermolysis bullosa (EB) is a disease in which the skin blisters in response to minimal friction, causing painful wounds. Despite the potentially severe nature of epidermolysis bullosa, research on the psychosocial issues is scarce. The aims of the study were to explore the psychosocial impact of epidermolysis bullosa on affected adults and to identify associated support needs. We collected data using semistructured interviews and employed indu…
Freudian Slips and Coteries of Vice: The Sexual Offences Act of 1967
The Sexual Offences Act 1967 made the first inroads to decriminalising men's homosexual sex since buggery was made a capital offence under Henry VIII. The act was drafted at the direction of the 1957 Wolfenden report, but bore the distinct hallmark of individuals of the 1967 parliament. More complex than the dictated product of Wolfenden, and more idiosyncratic than a simple reflection of the social climate of the 1960s, the private member's bill…
The importance of the individual in the ‘causal’ relationship between attractiveness and self‐esteem
This paper argues that many psychological explanations underlying health and social behaviour stress the importance of the relationship between attractiveness and self‐esteem. The nature of this relationship is not well understood, yet can have important implications for the individual in areas of medical intervention which involve treatment on aesthetic grounds. A survey of psychosocial factors among 1018 children aged 11‐12 years is reported. T…
The importance of the individual in the ‘causal’ relationship between attractiveness and self‐esteem
This paper argues that many psychological explanations underlying health and social behaviour stress the importance of the relationship between attractiveness and self‐esteem. The nature of this relationship is not well understood, yet can have important implications for the individual in areas of medical intervention which involve treatment on aesthetic grounds. A survey of psychosocial factors among 1018 children aged 11‐12 years is reported. T…
The Television Audience: A Reconsideration of the Taken-for-Granted Terms `Active', `Social' and `Critical'
This paper addresses recent debates concerning the conceptualization of the television audience and the viewing context. It re-examines concepts that have acquired `commonsense' status within media studies, for example, `active', `social', `context' and `critical'. These concepts are discussed in relation to illustrative extracts from audience discussions of the drama-documentary, Who Bombed Birmingham? Twelve group discussions were carried out f…
Postgraduate Work in Progress
Postgraduate Work in Progress
Just do it: An analysis of accounts of control over health amongst lower socioeconomic status groups
Recent interest in health inequalities research has focused upon psychosocial factors such as a sense of control. Previous work has sought to measure or describe personal beliefs about control over health without addressing the contradictory and rhetorical dimensions of such accounts. These issues are explored through an analysis of interviews with 30 lower socioeconomic status (SES) participants drawn from two qualitative studies of health inequ…
From Centenary to the Olympics, Gang Rape in Sydney
(2004). From Centenary to the Olympics, Gang Rape in Sydney. Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 183-201
Clothing and Embodiment: Men Managing Body Image and Appearance
Individualisation and inequalities in health: A Qualitative Study of Class Identity and Health
Having Sunk as Low as Possible for a Man to Sink' - The Pimp in Law
(De)constructing Body Image
The reification of body image leads to unarticulated ideological and conceptual assumptions that obscure the most dynamic and productive features of the construct. These assumptions are that body image: (1) 'exists'; (2) is a socially mediated product of perception; (3) is 'internal' and 'of the individual'; (4) can be treated and measured as if real; and (5) individuals' respond to body image measures as if neutrally providing information about …
Dressing the Body: The Role of Clothing in Sustaining Body Pride and Managing Body Distress
This qualitative research extends current theorizing on behavioural strategies for managing body distress by exploring how women manage body image through clothing practices. Eighty two women reported their subjective understanding of how body evaluation and clothing practices are interconnected in response to open-ended questionnaires. Thematic analysis of responses revealed that clothing practices are a mundane and agentic part of the adjustive…
Freudian Slips and Coteries of Vice: The Sexual Offences Act of 1967
The Sexual Offences Act 1967 made the first inroads to decriminalising men's homosexual sex since buggery was made a capital offence under Henry VIII. The act was drafted at the direction of the 1957 Wolfenden report, but bore the distinct hallmark of individuals of the 1967 parliament. More complex than the dictated product of Wolfenden, and more idiosyncratic than a simple reflection of the social climate of the 1960s, the private member's bill…
Resisting Homosexual Law Reform in Britain in the 1950s: The Passions of Earl Winterton
The Sixth Earl Winterton was an eccentric who is too easily dismissed as a homophobe and bigoted critic of the reforms proposed in the Wolfenden Report. But his outbursts in the Parliament against homosexuality point to his personal concerns for British masculinity and to an alternative understanding of masculinity that has received scant attention in the assessment of gay law reforms initiated by Wolfenden. Sociologists insist that the main func…
What Assumptions about Human Behaviour Underlie Asylum Judgments
In order to claim recognition as a refugee, individuals must give a ‘plausible’ account of persecution. Decision makers must then decide on the truthfulness of the account, and whether the person fits the legal definition of a refugee. Decision makers often have little corroborating evidence, and must make an assessment of credibility, largely a subjective response, involving a reliance on assumptions about human behaviour, judgements, attitudes,…
Qualitative Research Methods in Mental Health and Psychotherapy: A Guide for Students and Practitioners
This book provides a user-friendly introduction to the qualitative methods most commonly used in the mental health and psychotherapy arena. Chapters are written by leading researchers and the editors are experienced qualitative researchers, clinical trainers, and mental health practitioners. Provides chapter-by-chapter guidance on conducting a qualitative study from across a range of approaches. Offers guidance on how to review and appraise exist…
Captured (and disturbing for some): A last look at the abortionist
Tony Abbott and Abortion: Miscalculating the Strength of the Religious Right
In the context of analyses of the rise of the religious right, this article examines the passage and outcomes of the ‘abortion debate’ from 2004 to 2006. It analyses the reasons for the then Health Minister Tony Abbott's pursuit of the issue, and his strategies to place abortion on the public agenda, through his encouragement of church lobbies and conservative allies in parliament. Although it is commonly argued that the influence of right-wing C…
Paperback Abortion: Freakonomics, Market Populism AndthatAbortion-and-Crime Theory
In 2005 Freakonomics popularised the abortion-and-crime theory based on the microeconomic model of fertility control that was buoyed by the phenomenal ubiquity of market populism at the time. In its massive popularity, the book filled the popular bandwidth with a simple caricature of abortion as an individual economic preference, the demand for which might simply be switched on or off by the prevailing market conditions of the day. This, potentia…
The Psychosocial Impact of Epidermolysis Bullosa
Epidermolysis bullosa (EB) is a disease in which the skin blisters in response to minimal friction, causing painful wounds. Despite the potentially severe nature of epidermolysis bullosa, research on the psychosocial issues is scarce. The aims of the study were to explore the psychosocial impact of epidermolysis bullosa on affected adults and to identify associated support needs. We collected data using semistructured interviews and employed indu…
Mixed Methods in Health Psychology: Theoretical and Practical Considerations of the Third Paradigm
This article has two purposes: to examine why mixed methods is a legitimate approach particularly well suited to health psychology; and to describe the challenges inherent in conducting mixed methods research. First, arguments justifying the status of mixed methods as a third paradigm alongside solely quantitative and qualitative frameworks are discussed. Second, a qualitatively driven model of mixed methods is illustrated using examples from a r…
From Suck magazine to Corporate Paedophilia. Feminism and pornography — Remembering the Australian way
A Voice for the Injured: Bettina Arndt and Australian Family Law
This article analyses the nature and effect of the campaign against the Family Court led by social commentator Bettina Arndt from 1995 to 2006, in the context of the men's rights agenda and the politics of anti-feminist backlash. It documents the changes to Australian family law and the workings of the Family Court under the Howard government, as a result of this campaign, in order to understand the politics of backlash in the context of Wendy Br…
The Money Problem: Reparation and Restorative Justice in the Catholic Church's Towards Healing Program
Towards Healing is a restorative justice program for addressing complaints of sexual and other child abuse committed by clergy and other members of the Catholic Church. The program is upheld by the Church as leading the world in providing restorative and therapeutic justice. This article examines Towards Healing from the perspective of restorative justice standards and questions the potential for restorative justice to function in regard to Catho…
Graceful Remedies: Understanding Grace in the Catholic Church's Treatment of Clerical Child Sexual Abuse
This article examines advocacy of Catholic restorative justice for clerical child sexual abuse from the standpoint of feminist criminological critiques of the use of restorative mediation in sexual offence cases. In particular, it questions the Catholic invocation of grace and forgiveness of survivors of abuse in light of critical feminist concerns about the exploitation of emotions in restorative practices, especially in regard to sexual and oth…
Feminist Contributions to Justice for Survivors of Clerical Child Sexual Abuse
The scandal of systemic institutionalised child abuse by clergy and other church personnel continues to unfold across the globe with unremitting effect. Northern Ireland is the latest among a numbe
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