Karla Elliott
Biographic Data
| ID | 251479 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karla Elliott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karla |
| FAMILY NAME | Elliott |
| SIGNATURE | ELLIOTT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8985-4533 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 238 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Disrupting academic narratives of working-class masculinity as deficit: Young marginalised men rejecting patriarchal fatherhood
This article critiques how academic scholarship has too often framed working-class and marginalised young men through a deficit lens – positioning them as emotionally limited, regressive or inherently resistant to gender equality. Such portrayals risk reinforcing epistemic injustice by excluding these young men as credible narrators of their social worlds. In response, we call for more generative approaches to understanding masculinity on the mar…
Trajectories of Care: Tracing the Social Genesis of Men's Participation in Low Paid Care Work
Drawing on a study involving 41 men employed as support workers in the Australia Health Care and Social Assistance (HCSA) sector, in this article we investigate where in their lives and how men turn to caring roles. Documenting continuities of men's caring practices in their work lives and private lives, we present a series of men's care biographies and add to the literature on masculinity and care work by using the concept of “trajectories of ca…
Gendered Attitudes or Structural Barriers? Men Front Line Workers' Perspectives on What Keeps Men out of Paid Care Work in Australia
Gender segregation in paid care work offers a critical lens for understanding how gender inequality is reproduced in contemporary societies. While much research has explained men's absence from paid care through cultural and identity‐based accounts, less has been done to examine the structural mechanisms that sustain the feminisation of care. This paper addresses that gap by analysing men's experiences in frontline aged and disability care in Aus…
It’s Really Important that we Listen to Them”: Engaging Immigrant Men in Family Violence Prevention
Purpose The evidence base for what works to engage men and boys in primary prevention of family violence is limited. We consider strategies for engaging men from immigrant communities in family violence prevention in Victoria, Australia. Methods Drawing on interviews/focus groups and progress reports from five organizations running family violence prevention initiatives in immigrant communities, we explore how interventions with men and boys from…
Like in Every Other Facet of Life, I am Privileged to be a Man: Political Subjectivities of Young Men Working in the Australian Health Care and Social Assistance Sector
This article analyses young men’s political subjectivities through a prism of everyday alignments and disassociations with historically, socially and spatially produced masculinities. Drawing on qualitative data from a wider project on men and care work, we analyse insights from interview and focus group data pertaining to young-adult men (19–37 years old) working in the Australian Health Care and Social Assistance sector to document how they dis…
Drinking as affective labour: A discussion of Australian men working in hospitality and corporate workplaces
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…
Caring masculinities among working‐class men in blue‐collar occupations in the UK: Understanding biographies of care
Research considering men, boys, and the concept of caring masculinities has proliferated in the last five years, although attention has predominantly been given to privileged men's practices of care in the private realm. In this article, we explore caring masculinities among working‐class men in the United Kingdom employed in blue‐collar work, highlighting the possibilities for transformation and change stemming from men in the margins. Drawing o…
Looking After Yourself Is Self-Respect”: The Limits and Possibilities of Men’s Care on a Night Out
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: A reply to Christofidou
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…
Young Men Navigating Contemporary Masculinities
Bringing in margin and centre: ‘Open’ and ‘Closed’ as Concepts for Considering Men and Masculinities
This article suggests and develops the terminology and concepts of open and closed masculinities for conceptualising, discussing and understanding men and masculinities. These open and closed masculinities are located within a framework of margin and centre, in which possibilities for movement between open and closed expressions of masculinity are critical. This approach to men and masculinities builds upon the concept of the gender order, while …
Balancing generosity and critique: Reflections on Interviewing Young Men and Implications for Research Methodologies and Ethics
Feminist research methodologies have challenged power imbalances in qualitative interviews and gendered inequalities more broadly. We explore the methodological and ethical complexities of, and implications for, doing feminist research with young men. We draw on two studies in which narrative interviews with young men were conducted: one in 2014 and 2015 with 28 middle-class men between the ages of 20 and 31 living in Australia and Germany; and o…
Targeted violence perpetrated against women with disability by neighbours and community members
Sibling violence: Understanding experiences, impacts, and the need for nuanced responses
Sibling violence is an under‐researched field, and the impact of adolescent family violence (AFV) in particular on siblings is not yet well understood. The Australian study Investigating Adolescent Family Violence in Victoria elicited responses from siblings who had experienced AFV from their brothers or sisters, as well as reflections from parents and practitioners on the difficulties of addressing AFV directed towards siblings. This article exp…
Negotiations between progressive and 'traditional' expressions of masculinity among young Australian men
This article draws on feminist theory and critical studies on men and masculinities to explore expressions of masculinity among young, relatively privileged men between the ages of 20 and 29 in Australia. Narrative interviews conducted with these men in 2014 revealed assertions of progressive attitudes alongside reworkings of more hegemonic expressions of masculinity. In particular, participants demonstrated distancing from ideas of protest mascu…
Caring Masculinities: Theorizing an Emerging Concept
A space has emerged for theorizing 'caring masculinities,' as the concept has increasingly become a focus of European critical studies on men and masculinities (CSMM). In this article, I present a practice-based framework of the concept. I propose that caring masculinities are masculine identities that reject domination and its associated traits and embrace values of care such as positive emotion, interdependence, and relationality. I suggest tha…
Caring Masculinities: Theorizing an Emerging Concept
A space has emerged for theorizing 'caring masculinities,' as the concept has increasingly become a focus of European critical studies on men and masculinities (CSMM). In this article, I present a practice-based framework of the concept. I propose that caring masculinities are masculine identities that reject domination and its associated traits and embrace values of care such as positive emotion, interdependence, and relationality. I suggest tha…
Negotiations between progressive and 'traditional' expressions of masculinity among young Australian men
This article draws on feminist theory and critical studies on men and masculinities to explore expressions of masculinity among young, relatively privileged men between the ages of 20 and 29 in Australia. Narrative interviews conducted with these men in 2014 revealed assertions of progressive attitudes alongside reworkings of more hegemonic expressions of masculinity. In particular, participants demonstrated distancing from ideas of protest mascu…
Bringing in margin and centre: ‘Open’ and ‘Closed’ as Concepts for Considering Men and Masculinities
This article suggests and develops the terminology and concepts of open and closed masculinities for conceptualising, discussing and understanding men and masculinities. These open and closed masculinities are located within a framework of margin and centre, in which possibilities for movement between open and closed expressions of masculinity are critical. This approach to men and masculinities builds upon the concept of the gender order, while …
Sibling violence: Understanding experiences, impacts, and the need for nuanced responses
Sibling violence is an under‐researched field, and the impact of adolescent family violence (AFV) in particular on siblings is not yet well understood. The Australian study Investigating Adolescent Family Violence in Victoria elicited responses from siblings who had experienced AFV from their brothers or sisters, as well as reflections from parents and practitioners on the difficulties of addressing AFV directed towards siblings. This article exp…
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…
Caring masculinities among working‐class men in blue‐collar occupations in the UK: Understanding biographies of care
Research considering men, boys, and the concept of caring masculinities has proliferated in the last five years, although attention has predominantly been given to privileged men's practices of care in the private realm. In this article, we explore caring masculinities among working‐class men in the United Kingdom employed in blue‐collar work, highlighting the possibilities for transformation and change stemming from men in the margins. Drawing o…
Absences, presences and unintended consequences in debates about masculinities and social change: A reply to Christofidou
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…
Targeted violence perpetrated against women with disability by neighbours and community members
Balancing generosity and critique: Reflections on Interviewing Young Men and Implications for Research Methodologies and Ethics
Feminist research methodologies have challenged power imbalances in qualitative interviews and gendered inequalities more broadly. We explore the methodological and ethical complexities of, and implications for, doing feminist research with young men. We draw on two studies in which narrative interviews with young men were conducted: one in 2014 and 2015 with 28 middle-class men between the ages of 20 and 31 living in Australia and Germany; and o…
Drinking as affective labour: A discussion of Australian men working in hospitality and corporate workplaces
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…
Caring Masculinities: Theorizing an Emerging Concept
A space has emerged for theorizing 'caring masculinities,' as the concept has increasingly become a focus of European critical studies on men and masculinities (CSMM). In this article, I present a practice-based framework of the concept. I propose that caring masculinities are masculine identities that reject domination and its associated traits and embrace values of care such as positive emotion, interdependence, and relationality. I suggest tha…
Targeted violence perpetrated against women with disability by neighbours and community members
Sibling violence: Understanding experiences, impacts, and the need for nuanced responses
Sibling violence is an under‐researched field, and the impact of adolescent family violence (AFV) in particular on siblings is not yet well understood. The Australian study Investigating Adolescent Family Violence in Victoria elicited responses from siblings who had experienced AFV from their brothers or sisters, as well as reflections from parents and practitioners on the difficulties of addressing AFV directed towards siblings. This article exp…
Negotiations between progressive and 'traditional' expressions of masculinity among young Australian men
This article draws on feminist theory and critical studies on men and masculinities to explore expressions of masculinity among young, relatively privileged men between the ages of 20 and 29 in Australia. Narrative interviews conducted with these men in 2014 revealed assertions of progressive attitudes alongside reworkings of more hegemonic expressions of masculinity. In particular, participants demonstrated distancing from ideas of protest mascu…
Young Men Navigating Contemporary Masculinities
Bringing in margin and centre: ‘Open’ and ‘Closed’ as Concepts for Considering Men and Masculinities
This article suggests and develops the terminology and concepts of open and closed masculinities for conceptualising, discussing and understanding men and masculinities. These open and closed masculinities are located within a framework of margin and centre, in which possibilities for movement between open and closed expressions of masculinity are critical. This approach to men and masculinities builds upon the concept of the gender order, while …
Balancing generosity and critique: Reflections on Interviewing Young Men and Implications for Research Methodologies and Ethics
Feminist research methodologies have challenged power imbalances in qualitative interviews and gendered inequalities more broadly. We explore the methodological and ethical complexities of, and implications for, doing feminist research with young men. We draw on two studies in which narrative interviews with young men were conducted: one in 2014 and 2015 with 28 middle-class men between the ages of 20 and 31 living in Australia and Germany; and o…
Absences, presences and unintended consequences in debates about masculinities and social change: A reply to Christofidou
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…
Caring masculinities among working‐class men in blue‐collar occupations in the UK: Understanding biographies of care
Research considering men, boys, and the concept of caring masculinities has proliferated in the last five years, although attention has predominantly been given to privileged men's practices of care in the private realm. In this article, we explore caring masculinities among working‐class men in the United Kingdom employed in blue‐collar work, highlighting the possibilities for transformation and change stemming from men in the margins. Drawing o…
Looking After Yourself Is Self-Respect”: The Limits and Possibilities of Men’s Care on a Night Out
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…
Drinking as affective labour: A discussion of Australian men working in hospitality and corporate workplaces
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…
It’s Really Important that we Listen to Them”: Engaging Immigrant Men in Family Violence Prevention
Purpose The evidence base for what works to engage men and boys in primary prevention of family violence is limited. We consider strategies for engaging men from immigrant communities in family violence prevention in Victoria, Australia. Methods Drawing on interviews/focus groups and progress reports from five organizations running family violence prevention initiatives in immigrant communities, we explore how interventions with men and boys from…
Like in Every Other Facet of Life, I am Privileged to be a Man: Political Subjectivities of Young Men Working in the Australian Health Care and Social Assistance Sector
This article analyses young men’s political subjectivities through a prism of everyday alignments and disassociations with historically, socially and spatially produced masculinities. Drawing on qualitative data from a wider project on men and care work, we analyse insights from interview and focus group data pertaining to young-adult men (19–37 years old) working in the Australian Health Care and Social Assistance sector to document how they dis…
Disrupting academic narratives of working-class masculinity as deficit: Young marginalised men rejecting patriarchal fatherhood
This article critiques how academic scholarship has too often framed working-class and marginalised young men through a deficit lens – positioning them as emotionally limited, regressive or inherently resistant to gender equality. Such portrayals risk reinforcing epistemic injustice by excluding these young men as credible narrators of their social worlds. In response, we call for more generative approaches to understanding masculinity on the mar…
Trajectories of Care: Tracing the Social Genesis of Men's Participation in Low Paid Care Work
Drawing on a study involving 41 men employed as support workers in the Australia Health Care and Social Assistance (HCSA) sector, in this article we investigate where in their lives and how men turn to caring roles. Documenting continuities of men's caring practices in their work lives and private lives, we present a series of men's care biographies and add to the literature on masculinity and care work by using the concept of “trajectories of ca…
Gendered Attitudes or Structural Barriers? Men Front Line Workers' Perspectives on What Keeps Men out of Paid Care Work in Australia
Gender segregation in paid care work offers a critical lens for understanding how gender inequality is reproduced in contemporary societies. While much research has explained men's absence from paid care through cultural and identity‐based accounts, less has been done to examine the structural mechanisms that sustain the feminisation of care. This paper addresses that gap by analysing men's experiences in frontline aged and disability care in Aus…
Gender Roles and Identity Studies (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Masculinity (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works)