Antonia Lyons
Biographic Data
| ID | 84039 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antonia Lyons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antonia |
| FAMILY NAME | Lyons |
| SIGNATURE | LYONS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4254-3268 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 72 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 429 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 72 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Evading regulation: Young people’s exposure to harmful commodity marketing in the social media feeds of their favourite influencers
Increasingly companies use social media influencers to market unhealthy products to young people, although we know little about the influencers young people follow and the content influencers post. This study aimed to identify influencers young people follow, examine their exposure to harmful commodity content in influencer accounts, and examine the Instagram accounts of the most popular influencers for harmful commodity content and marketing. In…
Hidden Persuasion: Big Alcohol's Tactics on Social Media
Alcohol marketing is harmful as it increases the consumption of alcohol, age of initiation of alcohol and hazardous drinking patterns. Dark nudges and sludge are behavioural economics techniques used to exploit cognitive biases to manipulate consumers to make decisions that are not in their best interest. These have previously been described in alcohol industry corporate responsibility materials and in digital tools and apps funded by the alcohol…
Women, health and alcohol at midlife: Performing postfeminist healthism to manage well-being
INTRODUCTION: For many women in Western countries, alcohol is associated with pleasure, sociability and coping, but also health risks. Drawing on postfeminist healthism concepts, this research explored how women at midlife perform health and well-being around drinking alcohol. METHODS: Eight friendship groups and 17 individual interviews were conducted with 50 women (35-59 years) in Aotearoa New Zealand about alcohol and drinking. Transcripts wer…
‘If you’re not careful, it can be toxic’: Young women’s accounts of ‘healthy’ social media use and wellbeing
OBJECTIVE: Located in French-speaking Switzerland, this study investigated seventeen young women's talk about how their social media practices impact their (psychological) health and wellbeing. METHODS AND MEASURES: Embedded within a critical perspective in health psychology, we explored the discursive moves and resources participants mobilised to construct 'good' and 'bad' subject positions. Drawing on the concept of postfeminist healthism, our …
Māori youth suicide: Coroners’ experiences of engaging with bereaved families in Aotearoa New Zealand
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people globally, and Indigenous populations experience higher suicide rates than non-Indigenous populations. In many jurisdictions, suspected suicides are investigated through coronial services established by governments as part of colonisation, and these services often fail to foster positive engagement with Indigenous families. This research took place in Aotearoa New Zealand and was guide…
‘I don’t consider cancer when I’m grabbing the beer’: Discursive strategies used by midlife New Zealanders to undermine alcohol-cancer risks
Compared with other age groups, adults at midlife consume alcohol at relatively high levels. Alcohol has been linked to a number of long-term health risks, including cancer, although awareness of cancer risk is low. The current study aimed to examine how adults at midlife talk about, understand and consider alcohol-related cancer risks within their life contexts. Individual interviews were undertaken with 37 adults (41–64 years; 28 female, 9 male…
Alcohol industry discourses about LGBTQ+ communities: Genuine allies or partners for profit
Background Sexual and gender minority people have been found to drink more heavily than heterosexual and cisgender populations. Alcohol companies target rainbow communities by promoting alcoholic products through various promotional strategies. The current study examined the discourses that alcohol companies employed in their publicly available material when discussing LGBTQ+ people and rainbow communities.Methods Eight online websites containing…
New immersive alcohol marketing and commerce in metaverse environments
Alcohol, affective atmospheres and structures of feeling in women at midlife
Women at midlife experienced pressures to be economically and socially successful, to maintain slim bodies, and to have 'appropriate' feelings such as selflessness and gratitude. For women in this study, drinking alcohol was a way to achieve, and to cope with, expectations around idealised femininities and socially endorsed ways of living, being, and feeling. Repeated and routine affective experiences reinforced the role of alcohol in women's liv…
The world seems a bit of a better place”: Idealised femininities and alcohol consumption at midlife
Across their lifetimes, women at midlife have experienced shifts in idealised femininities and permissive alcohol environments. Rising drinking rates in midlife women have gained media attention and are often framed as a societal and public health issue. This research explored how women construct and position drinking and alcohol within their lives. Eight friendship groups and 17 individual interviews were conducted with 50 women (35–59 years) in…
All the rage - and other feelings: Young women, sexual harassment and media
Feminist anger and rage have taken on a new visibility in the post-#MeToo moment, after decades of muting and prohibition related in part to the dominance of a postfeminist sensibility, and the ongoing force of normative femininity with its renunciation of anger. In this article, we extend a body of research on #MeToo and rage which has centred on 'feminist flashpoints', the cultural products of #MeToo and digital feminist activism. Our focus is …
Alcohol-related health risks, cancer and government drinking guidelines: Views of adults at midlife in Aotearoa New Zealand
Alcohol consumption increases longer-term health risks, including cancer. Many adults at midlife in Aotearoa New Zealand drink frequently but may not be aware of such risks. This study examined midlife adults' awareness of alcohol and health risks and their knowledge of government low-risk drinking guidelines. A convenience sample of 502 adults (aged 40-65 years; 70% female) completed an online questionnaire. Almost all respondents reported they …
Losing everything: Experiences of a flood for people who inject drugs in Aotearoa New Zealand
Digital alcohol marketing and gender: A narrative synthesis
Alcohol marketing on social media: Young people’s exposure, engagement and alcohol-related behaviors
Aim Alcohol promotions in conventional channels are associated with subsequent alcohol consumption in young people, but little is known about young people's exposure to digital alcohol marketing. This exploratory study investigated young people's exposure to, and engagement with, alcohol marketing on social media platforms, variations across sociodemographic groups and associations with alcohol-related behaviors
Is there a right time to die? How patients, families and assisted dying providers decide on and anticipate a date with death
Research has explored why people seek assisted dying (AD), families' bereavement, and AD providers' experiences, yet few studies have investigated decision-making of the time and date for AD. This article elucidates how cancer patients, families and AD providers decide on and experience living with a date and time for AD in New Zealand. We longitudinally interviewed 23 people. Using thematic analysis, we identified four decision-making phases: de…
Women, alcohol consumption and health promotion: The value of a critical realist approach
Research on women’s drinking occurs in largely disparate disciplines—including public health, health promotion, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies—and draws on differing philosophical understandings and theoretical frameworks. Tensions between the aims and paradigmatic underpinnings of this research (across and within disciplines) have meant that knowledge and insight can be frequently disciplinary-specific and somewhat siloed. However, …
Home drinking practices among middle‐class adults in midlife during the Covid ‐19 pandemic: Material ubiquity, automatic routines and embodied states
Alcohol and masculinity within community sports clubs in Aotearoa New Zealand
Traditionally, males have been more involved in community sports, and they also consume alcohol at higher rates compared to other genders in Aotearoa NZ. The present study drew on notions of gender and hegemonic masculinity to explore people's experiences of sports clubs, alcohol and masculinity. In‐depth individual interviews were undertaken with 12 participants (10 males, 2 females, aged 23–56), who belonged to a range of sports clubs. Followin…
Limbic platform capitalism: Understanding the contemporary marketing of health-demoting products on social media
The purposive design, production and marketing of legal but health-demoting products that stimulate habitual consumption and pleasure for maximum profit has been called ‘limbic capitalism’. In this article, drawing on alcohol and tobacco as key examples, we extend this framework into the digital realm. We argue that ‘limbic platform capitalism’ is a serious threat to the health and wellbeing of individuals, communities and populations. Accessed r…
Alcohol and drinking within the lives of midlife women: A meta-study systematic review
Pretty in Pink’ and ‘Girl Power’: An analysis of the targeting and representation of women in alcohol brand marketing on Facebook and Instagram
A little bubble of utopia: Constructions of a Primary Care-Based Pilot Clinic Providing Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy
The provision of gender affirming hormone therapy for transgender and non-binary people is a rapidly developing area of gender affirming healthcare. While research indicates the benefits of providing gender affirming hormone therapy through interdisciplinary primary care-based models, less is known about how service users and providers construct their understandings of affirmative approaches. In this paper, we present findings from a discourse an…
Stigma and disaster risk reduction among vulnerable groups: Considering people receiving opioid substitution treatment
Embodying health behaviours in everyday life: The social and gendered practices of female senior managers
Objective: This article extends current theorising around health behaviours using insights from a study with women working in senior management positions in Switzerland. The study aimed to explore the meanings they attached to their everyday activities and examine implications for health and wellbeing by drawing on 1) social practices theory, 2) a socio-constructionist approach to gender, and 3) conceptualisations of embodiment.Design: Twenty fem…
Alcohol Consumption, Gender Identities and Women’s Changing Social Positions
Qualitative Research in Clinical and Health Psychology
1. Introduction: Qualitative Research in Clinical and Health Psychology Poul Rohleder and Antonia C. Lyons.- PART I: ISSUES IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH.- 2. Epistemology and Qualitative Research Kerry Chamberlain.- 3. Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research Poul Rohleder and Charlotte Smith.- 4. Thinking about Culture and Language in Psychological Research and Practice Leslie Swartz.- 5. Ensuring Quality in Qualitative Research Gareth Treharne and Dam…
Examining Media Representations: Benefits for Health Psychology
Health psychology has tended to undervalue analyses of media representations of health, disease and illness. In this article I argue that critical approaches to media texts and images are valuable for health psychologists because: (1) individuals are socially located and gain their beliefs about health and illness from the discourses and constructions that are available to them; (2) media representations of health, illness and disease produce and…
Maori healers' views on wellbeing: The importance of mind, body, spirit, family and land
Hardcore Drinking: Portrayals of Alcohol Consumption in Young Women’s and Men’s Magazines
Young adults and young women in particular are drinking more alcohol than ever before, with implications for risky behaviours and long-term health. This study explored the ways in which alcohol and drinking were represented in six monthly UK magazines (three targeted at young men, three at young women) across a threemonth period (18 magazines). We identified three main discourses across the texts, namely the drug alcohol; masculinity and machismo…
From Suet Pudding to Superhero: Representations of Men's Health for Women
Men's health has been receiving increasing attention in recent years, both in the media and in academic literature. In February 1998 a British Sunday newspaper, The Mail on Sunday, ran a three-week special feature on 'A woman's guide to men's health'. Linguistic representations of health in popular media are revealing of social concerns regarding both the control of health and health care, therefore we critically analysed these texts using post-s…
Staying 'in the zone' but not passing the 'point of no return: Embodiment, Gender and Drinking in Mid-Life
Public health approaches have frequently conceptualised alcohol consumption as an individual behaviour resulting from rational choice. We argue that drinking alcohol needs to be understood as an embodied social practice embedded in gendered social relationships and environments. We draw on data from 14 focus groups with pre-existing groups of friends and work colleagues in which men and women in mid-life discussed their drinking behaviour. Analys…
Older and wiser? Men's and women's accounts of drinking in early mid-life
Most qualitative research on alcohol focuses on younger rather than older adults. To explore older people's relationship with alcohol, we conducted eight focus groups with 36 men and women aged 35 to 50 years in Scotland, UK. Initially, respondents suggested that older drinkers consume less alcohol, no longer drink to become drunk and are sociable drinkers more interested in the taste than the effects of alcohol. However, as discussions progresse…
Managing menopause: A Qualitative Analysis of Self-Help Literature for Women at Midlife
It's not really us discriminating against immigrants, it's more telling people how to fit in’: Constructing the nation in immigration talk in New Zealand
Previous research has demonstrated that talk about immigration can function to produce, reproduce and stabilize racism (Capdevila & Callaghan, 2008 ). In New Zealand (NZ), changes in immigration policy have seen a rapid increase in diverse groups of migrants with varied cultural backgrounds entering the country in the past two decades. Given its unique colonial history and ‘settler nationality in a bicultural nation’ (Bell, 2009 ), we explored ho…
Tragic girls” and “crack whores”: Alcohol, femininity and Facebook
New Zealand, similar to many other westernised nations, has a well-developed national culture of drinking to intoxication. Within this cultural context, young women are exhorted to engage with the night time economy, get drunk and have “fun” without relinquishing claims to “respectability”. More recently, the rise of Facebook and other social networking sites has coincided with shifts in postfeminism, neo-liberalism and the development of the nig…
Social media platforms as complex and contradictory spaces for feminisms: Visibility, opportunity, power, resistance and activism
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Consuming Male Identities: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Alcohol Consumption in Aotearoa New Zealand
The excessive and public consumption of alcohol with other men has been a traditional indication of manliness in Western cultures for many years. However, over the last two decades, this association has been eroded, in part through increased consumption by women. Within the gender‐relational context of this increase, we empirically explore ways in which particular (friendship) groups of young men and women (re)construct masculine identities. The …
Uncertainty in medicine: Meanings of menopause and hormone replacement therapy in medical textbooks
The Future of Qualitative Research in Psychology: Accentuating the Positive
Accounting for Racism Against Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A Discourse Analytic Study of the Views of Maori Adults
Previous discursive studies on the construction, reproduction and justification of racism have focussed on the accounts of perpetrators to the exclusion of the targets of racist talk. The current study redresses this imbalance by exploring the talk of targets of racism in Aotearoa/ New Zealand. Interviews were conducted with 24 participants, 19 Māori and five Pākehā partners. Our social constructionist discourse analysis identifies four primary d…
The Doctor, the Breath and Thomas Bernhard: Using Novels in Health Psychology
The use of literature in medical education has increased greatly in recent years, as attested to by growth in the medical humanities field. In this article we argue that literary texts may be beneficial for use in health psychology, illustrated by an analysis of patient-physician interaction in the novel Breath by Thomas Bernhard. Reading novels can impact on people's health-related behaviours. Using novels in our teaching and training can illust…
Well-being in Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Effects of Disease Duration and Psychosocial Factors
This study examined the multivariate relationships of psychosocial factors with well-being in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Fifty-five patients with early RA ( seven years) completed questionnaires on psychosocial factors and psychological and physical well-being. Illness perceptions related to worse depression and life satisfaction (especially in early RA) and to longer morning stiffness (especially in intermediate RA). Optimism related to lower pa…
Critiquing the heteronormativity of the banal citizen in New Zealand's mediated civil union debate
This article extends Billig's (1995) landmark thesis on banal nationalism by considering how processes of national deixis circumscribe the boundaries of citizenship and forms of belonging within nation-states. Drawing on critical analyses of sexual citizenship, the article provides a discursive analysis of the debate over civil union in the New Zealand mainstream press during 2004–2005. It argues that this mediated debate represented an historica…
Critical health psychology in New Zealand: Developments, directions and reflections
We examine how critical health psychology developed in New Zealand, taking an historical perspective to document important influences. We discuss how academic appointments created a confluence of critical researchers at Massey University, how interest in health psychology arose and expanded, how the critical turn eventuated and how connections, both local and international, were important in building and sustaining these developments. We discuss …
Pour It Up, Drink It Up, Live It Up, Give It Up: Masculinity and Alcohol in Pop Music Videos
Music videos are popular, frequently aimed at young adult audiences, and easily accessible through online platforms. They often portray specific versions of masculinities and femininities and are increasingly linked to the alcohol industry. This research explored how masculinity, femininity, and alcohol consumption are constructed within four mainstream popular music videos. Critical multimodal discourse analysis was employed to systematically ex…
Precarious Popularity: Facebook Drinking Photos, the Attention Economy, and the Regime of the Branded Self
Young people are often accused of being foolhardy for posting photos on Facebook that depict drinking and intoxication. However, in this article, we argue young people's predilection for posting Facebook drinking photos must be understood in relation to Facebook's specific architecture and affordances, and is symptomatic of new forms of online sociality and 'required' aspects of identity work which are tied to imperatives for self-promotion in th…
Drink a 12 box before you go’: Pre‐loading among young people in Aotearoa New Zealand
The practice of pre‐loading—drinking large amounts of alcohol rapidly in private spaces prior to socialising in the night‐time economy—has come to notice recently in the study of alcohol‐related harm, but no studies have explored these phenomena in Aotearoa New Zealand. We used a theoretical framework developed with public health alcohol studies for understanding drinking cultures that conceptualises patterns of behaviours as arising within a dyn…
Challenges for health psychology: Theorizing belief and beyond
We are supportive of Cromby's challenge to further develop 'belief' as a concept relevant for health psychology. Drawing on the wider "affective turn" in the social sciences, Cromby demonstrates the importance of theorising the sociality of thinking and feeling for fundamental health psychology conceptualisations. These theorisations might usefully be applied to key health psychology topics, such as social cogntion models, beliefs about adherence…
Cancer Ward: Patient Perceptions in Oncology
The novel Cancer ward (Solzhenitsyn, 1968) was used to examine the perceptions that cancer patients hold regarding their illness and its treatment, and how these perceptions relate to theoretical models in health psychology. Excerpts were identified, categorized and interpreted using the Self-Regulation Model of illness. The model's dimensions of illness perceptions were apparent throughout Cancer ward. Patients held specific representations abou…
From Suet Pudding to Superhero: Representations of Men's Health for Women
Men's health has been receiving increasing attention in recent years, both in the media and in academic literature. In February 1998 a British Sunday newspaper, The Mail on Sunday, ran a three-week special feature on 'A woman's guide to men's health'. Linguistic representations of health in popular media are revealing of social concerns regarding both the control of health and health care, therefore we critically analysed these texts using post-s…
Examining Media Representations: Benefits for Health Psychology
Health psychology has tended to undervalue analyses of media representations of health, disease and illness. In this article I argue that critical approaches to media texts and images are valuable for health psychologists because: (1) individuals are socially located and gain their beliefs about health and illness from the discourses and constructions that are available to them; (2) media representations of health, illness and disease produce and…
Women's Health: Psychological and Social Perspectives
Managing menopause: A Qualitative Analysis of Self-Help Literature for Women at Midlife
Food Allergy in Young Adults: Perceptions and Psychological Effects
Although food allergy can have serious health consequences, little is currently known about people's perceptions of food allergy. The present study examined the differences in awareness and perceptions of food allergy and anxiety between young people with and without a food allergy. Participants completed a questionnaire which asked about their perceptions and knowledge of allergies, perceived health competence and anxiety. Of the 162 participant…
Well-being in Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Effects of Disease Duration and Psychosocial Factors
This study examined the multivariate relationships of psychosocial factors with well-being in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Fifty-five patients with early RA ( seven years) completed questionnaires on psychosocial factors and psychological and physical well-being. Illness perceptions related to worse depression and life satisfaction (especially in early RA) and to longer morning stiffness (especially in intermediate RA). Optimism related to lower pa…
Health Psychology: A Critical Introduction
This textbook aims to provide students with a stimulating alternative to the textbooks currently available by placing the discipline within the context of the social world and encouraging them to question some of the assumptions and values underlying much current research. A comprehensive survey of the discipline is provided, framed within a lifespan approach, and emphasising social-cultural factors such as gender, ethnicity and social-economic s…
Hardcore Drinking: Portrayals of Alcohol Consumption in Young Women’s and Men’s Magazines
Young adults and young women in particular are drinking more alcohol than ever before, with implications for risky behaviours and long-term health. This study explored the ways in which alcohol and drinking were represented in six monthly UK magazines (three targeted at young men, three at young women) across a threemonth period (18 magazines). We identified three main discourses across the texts, namely the drug alcohol; masculinity and machismo…
It's gotten a bit old, charity’: Young adults in New Zealand talk about poverty, charitable giving and aid appeals
An extensive body of literature exists on the phenomena of poverty, charitable giving and the effectiveness of aid appeals. To date psychological research has predominantly focused on individualistic models to explain people's understandings of poverty and their charitable giving practices. Based upon a social constructionist epistemology, this study investigates how understandings of aid appeals, poverty and charitable giving are discursively pr…
Alcohol Consumption, Gender Identities and Women’s Changing Social Positions
The Doctor, the Breath and Thomas Bernhard: Using Novels in Health Psychology
The use of literature in medical education has increased greatly in recent years, as attested to by growth in the medical humanities field. In this article we argue that literary texts may be beneficial for use in health psychology, illustrated by an analysis of patient-physician interaction in the novel Breath by Thomas Bernhard. Reading novels can impact on people's health-related behaviours. Using novels in our teaching and training can illust…
It's not really us discriminating against immigrants, it's more telling people how to fit in’: Constructing the nation in immigration talk in New Zealand
Previous research has demonstrated that talk about immigration can function to produce, reproduce and stabilize racism (Capdevila & Callaghan, 2008 ). In New Zealand (NZ), changes in immigration policy have seen a rapid increase in diverse groups of migrants with varied cultural backgrounds entering the country in the past two decades. Given its unique colonial history and ‘settler nationality in a bicultural nation’ (Bell, 2009 ), we explored ho…
Maori healers' views on wellbeing: The importance of mind, body, spirit, family and land
Cancer Ward: Patient Perceptions in Oncology
The novel Cancer ward (Solzhenitsyn, 1968) was used to examine the perceptions that cancer patients hold regarding their illness and its treatment, and how these perceptions relate to theoretical models in health psychology. Excerpts were identified, categorized and interpreted using the Self-Regulation Model of illness. The model's dimensions of illness perceptions were apparent throughout Cancer ward. Patients held specific representations abou…
Consuming Male Identities: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Alcohol Consumption in Aotearoa New Zealand
The excessive and public consumption of alcohol with other men has been a traditional indication of manliness in Western cultures for many years. However, over the last two decades, this association has been eroded, in part through increased consumption by women. Within the gender‐relational context of this increase, we empirically explore ways in which particular (friendship) groups of young men and women (re)construct masculine identities. The …
Uncertainty in medicine: Meanings of menopause and hormone replacement therapy in medical textbooks
Youth drinking cultures, social networking and alcohol marketing: Implications for public health
Alcohol consumption and heavy drinking in young adults have been key concerns for public health. Alcohol marketing is an important factor in contributing to negative outcomes. The rapid growth in the use of new social networking technologies raises new issues regarding alcohol marketing, as well as potential impacts on alcohol cultures more generally. Young people, for example, routinely tell and re-tell drinking stories online, share images depi…
Challenges for health psychology: Theorizing belief and beyond
We are supportive of Cromby's challenge to further develop 'belief' as a concept relevant for health psychology. Drawing on the wider "affective turn" in the social sciences, Cromby demonstrates the importance of theorising the sociality of thinking and feeling for fundamental health psychology conceptualisations. These theorisations might usefully be applied to key health psychology topics, such as social cogntion models, beliefs about adherence…
Older and wiser? Men's and women's accounts of drinking in early mid-life
Most qualitative research on alcohol focuses on younger rather than older adults. To explore older people's relationship with alcohol, we conducted eight focus groups with 36 men and women aged 35 to 50 years in Scotland, UK. Initially, respondents suggested that older drinkers consume less alcohol, no longer drink to become drunk and are sociable drinkers more interested in the taste than the effects of alcohol. However, as discussions progresse…
Everyone can loosen up and get a bit of a buzz on”: Young adults, alcohol and friendship practices
Critiquing the heteronormativity of the banal citizen in New Zealand's mediated civil union debate
This article extends Billig's (1995) landmark thesis on banal nationalism by considering how processes of national deixis circumscribe the boundaries of citizenship and forms of belonging within nation-states. Drawing on critical analyses of sexual citizenship, the article provides a discursive analysis of the debate over civil union in the New Zealand mainstream press during 2004–2005. It argues that this mediated debate represented an historica…
Young children's meaning making about the causes of illness within the family context
In this article we highlight the ways in which young children draw on their family contexts in their meaning making about the causes of illness. Studies of young children's understanding of illness causality have largely focused on the nature of children's knowledge rather than the ways in which children acquire their knowledge. Seeking to advance a socio-constructivist understanding of young children's conceptualization of illness causality, we …
Friendship Work on Facebook: Young Adults' Understandings and Practices of Friendship
Young adults use social networking sites (SNSs) such as Facebook to engage as friends, yet there has been little systematic research that has investigated their sense‐making of friendship in relation to their uses of Facebook, as well as how Facebook as a socio‐technical system interacts with their friendship practices. Twelve friendship discussion groups were conducted in urban and non‐urban New Zealand, with 26 women and 25 men aged 18–25 years…
Youth Drinking Cultures in Aotearoa
Consuming alcohol to intoxication is a commonplace leisure-time activity among young people in Aotearoa New Zealand, producing a formidable suite of harms and consequences that are proving challenging to redress. Youth drinking cultures are similar to those observed in Western Europe, where processes of globalization are increasingly “homogenizing” practice. The current study employed in-depth qualitative methods to explore micro-cultures of youn…
From men to the media and back again: Help-seeking in popular men’s magazines
Men's help-seeking behaviour for health issues is apparent in advice columns in men's magazines. This study discursively analysed men's help-seeking letters and expert replies within two international and popular men's magazines, Men's Health and For Him Magazine or FHM. Findings showed that the texts reinforced hegemonic ideals. Letters positioning men as self-reliant, independently knowledgeable, stoic and avoiding associations with femininity …
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