Who or what do young adults hold responsible for men’s drunken violence?

Does drinking modify the relationship between men's gender‐inequitable attitudes and their perpetration of intimate partner violence? A meta‐analysis of surveys of men from seven countries in the Asia Pacific region

“…The importance of the combined role of heavy drinking and masculinity concerns or gender role expectations is being increasingly recognized. Maclean, Demant & Room Figure 2 relationship (odds ratios) between lower gender-equitable attitudes and perpetration of intimate partner violence [perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV)] in each country [29] described how both alcohol and some forms of expressed masculinity, together with expectations about male behaviour/action in certain social contexts, all influence whether violence results. They argue that heavy drinking can be used as a way of demonstrating manhood and that violence, by expressing power and control over others (including both men and women) is also used to express a harmful form of masculinity.…”

“…There is increasing recognition of the negative impact of gendered social norms and gender inequality on health outcomes and behaviours [24], discussion of how gender and drinking intersect and discussion of what interventions are most effective in reducing perpetration of IPV [25][26][27][28]. For boys and men, ascribing to traditional norms of masculinity (including gender-inequitable attitudes) has been associated with risky health behaviours, including excessive alcohol consumption and use of harmful substances, men's use of violence against other men [29,30] and perpetration of IPV [31][32][33].…”

Displacements of gender: Research on alcohol, violence and the night-time economy

“…Although an extensive sociological literature highlights the relationship between masculinities, alcohol and violence (e.g. Carrington et al, 2010; Lindsay, 2012; MacLean et al, 2020; Tomsen, 1997), and statistical sources underscore male involvement in violence (e.g. Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2016), Australian quantitative research on alcohol and violence in the NTE has paid little attention to the role of male gender.…”

“There’s a lot of stereotypes going on”: A cross-national qualitative analysis of the place of gender in declining youth drinking

“…While gender was implicit in many of the examples provided in the previous section, the most explicit references to gendered alcohol practices in data from Australia, Denmark and Sweden emerged when research participants described intoxicated men and women (see also Bogren, 2020 ; MacLean et al, 2020 ; Wilkinson & Wilkinson, 2020 ). Descriptions of drinkers were not always negative, with intoxicated men and women often talked about in positive (e.g., funny, spontaneous) ways.…”

“…8; see also Nicholls, 2020 ; Wilkinson & Wilkinson, 2020 ). Second, gender was often made most salient through stereotyping and stigmatising processes, for example, when participants distanced themselves from the drinking of particular ‘types’ of young men or women ( Bogren, 2020 ; MacLean, Demant, & Room, 2020 ; Wilkinson & Wilkinson, 2020 ).…”