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Download fileObscuring gendered difference: the treatment of violence in Australian government alcohol policy
journal contribution
posted on 2021-05-27, 08:05 authored by Duane DuncanDuane Duncan, David MooreDavid Moore, Helen Keane, Mats EkendahlAbstract: 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.