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Title: | Enacting alcohol realities: Gendering practices in Australian studies on 'alcohol-related presentations' to emergency departments |
Contributor(s): | Moore, David (author); Keane, Helen (author); Duncan, Duane (author) |
Publication Date: | 2020-01 |
Early Online Version: | 2019-09-21 |
DOI: | 10.1111/1467-9566.12961 |
Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/51746 |
Abstract: | | 'Alcohol-fuelled violence' and its prevention has been the subject of recent intense policy debate in Australia, with the content of this debate informed by a surprisingly narrow range of research resources. In particular, given the well-established relationship between masculinities and violence, the meagre attention paid to the role of gender in alcohol research and policy recommendations stands out as a critical issue. In this article, which draws on recent work in feminist science studies and science and technology studies, we focus on the treatment of gender, alcohol and violence in Australian research on 'alcohol-related presentations' to emergency departments (EDs), analysing this type of research because of its prominence in policy debates. We focus on four types of 'gendering practice' through which research genders 'alcohol-related presentations' to EDs: omitting gender from consideration, overlooking clearly gendered data when making gender-neutral policy recommendations, rendering gender invisible via methodological considerations, and addressing gender in terms of risk and vulnerability. We argue that ED research practices and their policy recommendations reproduce normative understandings of alcohol's effects and of the operations of gender in social arrangements, thereby contributing to the 'evidence base' supporting unfair policy responses.
Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Grant Details: | ARC/DP18010036 |
Source of Publication: | Sociology of Health and Illness, 42(1), p. 3-19 |
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd |
Place of Publication: | United Kingdom |
ISSN: | 1467-9566 0141-9889 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 441010 Sociology of gender 440507 Studies of men and masculinities 440504 Gender relations |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 139999 Other culture and society not elsewhere classified |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes |
HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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