Obscuring Gendered Difference: The Treatment of Violence in Australian Government Alcohol Policy

Title
Obscuring Gendered Difference: The Treatment of Violence in Australian Government Alcohol Policy
Publication Date
2022
Author(s)
Duncan, Duane
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3408-6669
Email: dduncan8@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:dduncan8
Moore, David
Keane, Helen
Ekendahl, Mats
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1093/sp/jxaa038
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/52163
Abstract

Despite public debate about alcohol and public violence among young people in Australia, the issue of masculinities or gender is rarely visible in alcohol policy. Instead, policy recommendations aimed at reducing violence focus on changing the availability and consumption of alcohol. Drawing on concepts from feminist and science and technology studies scholarship, this article analyses how “alcohol-related violence” is constituted as a specific policy object, and how it coheres to obscure men’s contributions to and experiences of violence. Attention to the political effects of these policy practices is necessary for the development of more equitable alcohol policies.

Link
Citation
Social Politics, 29(3), p. 1057-1079
ISSN
1468-2893
1072-4745
Start page
1057
End page
1079

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