Victoria Rawlings
Biographic Data
| ID | 768177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria Rawlings |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria |
| FAMILY NAME | Rawlings |
| SIGNATURE | RAWLINGS V |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0614-2598 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Probably would have changed my whole world’
Gender fluidity and “other left-wing superstitions
Policies and other governance initiatives that attempt to limit or prohibit gender diversity inside (and outside of) schools are increasing in frequency. One core discourse that has been deployed to restrict curricular engagements and school policies around gender and sexuality diversity in schools is that of "parental rights", which seeks to position any discussions of these matters as requiring consent of parents. This paper reviews an inquiry …
‘I want to make a difference’
Research on violence in schools has been dominated by ‘bullying’ discourse and methodologies that place individualised pathos at the centre of problematic behaviours. This focus has resulted in the neglect of broader structures of power such as gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class in the violence enacted and encountered by young people. As a result, institutional solutions to school violence have often failed to acknowledge and respond t…
Girls and women in umpiring
In recent years there has been substantial growth of women playing in and competing at the top levels of traditionally male-dominated sports, including Australian Football. By comparison, the number of women officials have not increased at the same rate, raising multiple questions about retention, participation and sustainability. This paper reports the experiences of girls and women Australian Football officials. 27 umpires who identified as gir…
A threat to the social order
This paper reports on print media coverage of the Safe Schools Coalition Australia (SSCA) in the two years until its federal review and loss of funding. Through applying Altheide’s theories of the ‘problem frame’ in mass media, articles from the 13 national and capital cities papers were analysed to ascertain the dominant productions surrounding the SSCA, and how these framed gender and sexuality diversity within and outside schooling environment…
Marriage Equality Blues
This article examines the attitudes and experiences of participants in the 2017 Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey through an interdisciplinary collaboration joining insights from the humanities and social sciences. Prior analyses of the Survey results, both in academic scholarship and media commentary, have focused on particular social characteristics of those who supported or opposed the legalisation of same-sex marriage. Building on this fo…
It was Just One Less Thing that I Had to Worry about
While a range of studies have explored the difficulties and negative experiences that transgender and gender diverse young people face at school, there has so far been a dearth of research that investigates their positive experiences. Through interviews with three transgender youth, this study explores transgender and gender diverse students' positive experiences of schooling. Positive experiences centering around "significant people," "relations…
It's not bullying’, ‘It's just a joke’
Threats or harassment related to the enforcement of gender norms remain largely unchallenged in many schools. Possibilities for meaningful interventions have been undermined by an over‐reliance on individual, psycho‐pathologised understandings of ‘bullying’ and a reluctance to examine contextual and socio‐cultural mechanisms of power. Poststructural feminist approaches offer an alternative view of gendered violence and its responses—one that focu…
Norms and normalisation
Young people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer transgender have elevated rates of suicidality. Despite the increased risk, there is a paucity of research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer help-seeking and suicidality. We report on a UK sequential exploratory, two-stage, mixed-method study. Stage 1 involved 29 online and face-to-face semi-structured interviews with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer youth …
It was Just One Less Thing that I Had to Worry about
While a range of studies have explored the difficulties and negative experiences that transgender and gender diverse young people face at school, there has so far been a dearth of research that investigates their positive experiences. Through interviews with three transgender youth, this study explores transgender and gender diverse students' positive experiences of schooling. Positive experiences centering around "significant people," "relations…
It's not bullying’, ‘It's just a joke’
Threats or harassment related to the enforcement of gender norms remain largely unchallenged in many schools. Possibilities for meaningful interventions have been undermined by an over‐reliance on individual, psycho‐pathologised understandings of ‘bullying’ and a reluctance to examine contextual and socio‐cultural mechanisms of power. Poststructural feminist approaches offer an alternative view of gendered violence and its responses—one that focu…
A threat to the social order
This paper reports on print media coverage of the Safe Schools Coalition Australia (SSCA) in the two years until its federal review and loss of funding. Through applying Altheide’s theories of the ‘problem frame’ in mass media, articles from the 13 national and capital cities papers were analysed to ascertain the dominant productions surrounding the SSCA, and how these framed gender and sexuality diversity within and outside schooling environment…
Girls and women in umpiring
In recent years there has been substantial growth of women playing in and competing at the top levels of traditionally male-dominated sports, including Australian Football. By comparison, the number of women officials have not increased at the same rate, raising multiple questions about retention, participation and sustainability. This paper reports the experiences of girls and women Australian Football officials. 27 umpires who identified as gir…
Marriage Equality Blues
This article examines the attitudes and experiences of participants in the 2017 Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey through an interdisciplinary collaboration joining insights from the humanities and social sciences. Prior analyses of the Survey results, both in academic scholarship and media commentary, have focused on particular social characteristics of those who supported or opposed the legalisation of same-sex marriage. Building on this fo…
Norms and normalisation
Young people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer transgender have elevated rates of suicidality. Despite the increased risk, there is a paucity of research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer help-seeking and suicidality. We report on a UK sequential exploratory, two-stage, mixed-method study. Stage 1 involved 29 online and face-to-face semi-structured interviews with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer youth …
It's not bullying’, ‘It's just a joke’
Threats or harassment related to the enforcement of gender norms remain largely unchallenged in many schools. Possibilities for meaningful interventions have been undermined by an over‐reliance on individual, psycho‐pathologised understandings of ‘bullying’ and a reluctance to examine contextual and socio‐cultural mechanisms of power. Poststructural feminist approaches offer an alternative view of gendered violence and its responses—one that focu…
Marriage Equality Blues
This article examines the attitudes and experiences of participants in the 2017 Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey through an interdisciplinary collaboration joining insights from the humanities and social sciences. Prior analyses of the Survey results, both in academic scholarship and media commentary, have focused on particular social characteristics of those who supported or opposed the legalisation of same-sex marriage. Building on this fo…
It was Just One Less Thing that I Had to Worry about
While a range of studies have explored the difficulties and negative experiences that transgender and gender diverse young people face at school, there has so far been a dearth of research that investigates their positive experiences. Through interviews with three transgender youth, this study explores transgender and gender diverse students' positive experiences of schooling. Positive experiences centering around "significant people," "relations…
A threat to the social order
This paper reports on print media coverage of the Safe Schools Coalition Australia (SSCA) in the two years until its federal review and loss of funding. Through applying Altheide’s theories of the ‘problem frame’ in mass media, articles from the 13 national and capital cities papers were analysed to ascertain the dominant productions surrounding the SSCA, and how these framed gender and sexuality diversity within and outside schooling environment…
Girls and women in umpiring
In recent years there has been substantial growth of women playing in and competing at the top levels of traditionally male-dominated sports, including Australian Football. By comparison, the number of women officials have not increased at the same rate, raising multiple questions about retention, participation and sustainability. This paper reports the experiences of girls and women Australian Football officials. 27 umpires who identified as gir…
‘I want to make a difference’
Research on violence in schools has been dominated by ‘bullying’ discourse and methodologies that place individualised pathos at the centre of problematic behaviours. This focus has resulted in the neglect of broader structures of power such as gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class in the violence enacted and encountered by young people. As a result, institutional solutions to school violence have often failed to acknowledge and respond t…
Probably would have changed my whole world’
Gender fluidity and “other left-wing superstitions
Policies and other governance initiatives that attempt to limit or prohibit gender diversity inside (and outside of) schools are increasing in frequency. One core discourse that has been deployed to restrict curricular engagements and school policies around gender and sexuality diversity in schools is that of "parental rights", which seeks to position any discussions of these matters as requiring consent of parents. This paper reviews an inquiry …
Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works)