Farrugia, Adrian

Moore, David

Keane, Helen

Ekendahl, Mats

Graham, Kathryn

Duncan, Duane

2022-08

<p>In this article, we analyse interview data on how alcohol policy stakeholders in Australia, Canada and Sweden understand the relationship between men, masculinities, alcohol and violence. Using influential feminist scholarship on public policy and liberal political theory to analyse interviews with 42 alcohol policy stakeholders, we argue that while these stakeholders view men's violence as a key issue for intervention, masculinities are backgrounded in proposed responses and men positioned as unamenable to intervention. Instead, policy stakeholders prioritise generic interventions understood to protect all from the harms of men's drinking and violence without marking men for special attention. Shared across the data is a prioritisation of interventions that focus on harms recognised as relating to men's drinking but apply equally to all people and, as such, avoid naming men and masculinities as central to alcohol-related violence. We argue that this process works to background the role of masculinities in violence, leaving men unmarked and many possible targeted responses unthinkable.</p>

Qualitative Health Research, 32(10), p. 1419-1432

1552-7557

1049-7323

https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/52887

en

Sage Publications, Inc

Noticed and then Forgotten: Gender in Alcohol Policy Stakeholder Responses to Alcohol and Violence

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