Policies Addressing Alcohol-Related Violence Among Young People: A Gendered Analysis Based on Two Australian States

Hart, Aaron; Wilkinson, Claire

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-28607-1_15

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“…Men and women experience alcohol-related harm in different forms and at different levels, and this diversity of experience is easily overlooked when gender is framed simply as an individual attribute. Moreover, more attention to the interaction of norms of masculinity, alcohol effects and male conduct would enhance the ability to intervene in violence without relying on regulatory measures that overlook the integrity of individual alcohol users and the value of nightlife to diverse communities (Hart, 2016;Hart and Wilkinson, 2019;Hunt and Antin, 2017;Race, 2016).…”

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Making gender along the way: women, men and harm in Australian alcohol policy

Duncan

Keane

Moore

et al. 2020

Critical Policy Studies

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Analysis of alcohol policy suggests women are marked out for special attention while men and masculinities are often ignored. In this paper, we employ Carol Bacchi's (2017) work on "gendering practices" and John Law's (2011) concept of "collateral realities" to examine how gender is constituted in Australian alcohol policy.For Bacchi, policies actively produce what it is possible for "men" and "women" to become as "subjects". For Law, realities are constituted through methodological instruments and representational practices. These practices produce background assumptions that operate to stabilize a common sense understanding of the world. We analyse the making of three collateral realities in Australian alcohol policy: gender as an individual attribute; gender as a synonym for women; and gender as confined to the domestic sphere. These collateral realities contribute to the maintenance of binary notions of gender based on normative heterosexuality and naturalised sexual difference and reinforce a straightforwardly causal role for alcohol in harms, including violence.Women's vulnerability is constituted as natural and exceptional, and men's conduct is largely ignored as a target for intervention. Attention to the political effects of these "realities" should be prioritized in the development of more equitable responses to alcohol and harm.

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confidence: 99%