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Seidler, Zac E., Simon M. Rice, Haryana M. Dhillon, and Helen Herrman. "Why it’s time to focus on masculinity in mental health training and clinical practice." Australasian Psychiatry 27, no. 2 (October 8, 2018): 157–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1039856218804340.

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Objective: Men present with complex, diverse and often contradictory expressions of masculinity that are relevant to their health status. This article argues for the inclusion of masculinity into mental health curricula in Australia. Masculinity mediates health outcomes by influencing help seeking and engagement with treatment. Conclusion: An online curricula audit of publicly available information from Australian medical programs and their professional bodies reveals increasing awareness of the needs, but limited practical inclusion of masculinity models in training and practice. Described are the elements essential to training and subsequent clinical practice to curb the poor mental health outcomes of Australian men.

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YOUNG, GREG. "‘So slide over here’: the aesthetics of masculinity in late twentieth-century Australian pop music." Popular Music 23, no. 2 (May 2004): 173–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143004000145.

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For Australian men, the very act of appearing on stage has for much of the twentieth century aroused suspicion about their gender status and their sexuality. To aspire to the stage often implied homosexuality culturally in Australia. This has been evident in the evolving aesthetic of white Australian masculinity in pop music from the 1970s onwards. For most of that period, Anglo-Australian males who presented themselves in a rigid, almost asexual way dominated the aesthetic. The reality of urban Australia was ignored in their images, which were essentially confined to outback or coastal Australian settings. This paper examines that development as part of a continuum of twentieth century Australian male music performance that has variously been informed by the bush legend; a mythologised late nineteenth-century Australian masculine image, popularised in The Bulletin under the editorship of Archibald, that saw the urban as the feminine and the rural as the masculine. The paper considers how the combination of sexual anxiety surrounding male gender identity in Australian performance, and this rigid bush aesthetic, have encouraged the development of unstable male gender representations in Australian music that for the most part have come across as either caricatured male, sexless or anti-pop. The exception is the late Michael Hutchence whose performances were a clear departure from this in that on stage and in music videos he conveyed a star persona that was sexually charged and often ambiguous about its sexuality. It is for that reason alone that Michael Hutchence has been referred to as Australia's only international rock star (Carney 1997).

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Ragusa, Angela T., and Olivia Ward. "Unveiling the Male Corset." Men and Masculinities 20, no. 1 (July 26, 2016): 71–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x15613830.

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Contemporary sociological research indicates rural men face increasing pressure to comply with hegemonic masculine gender norms. Adopting Butler’s poststructural theory of gender performativity, this study presents findings from qualitative interviews with twenty-five self-identified male Goths living in rural Australia, revealing how participants enacted masculinity and how rurality shaped gender performance. Despite participants’ believing their Goth identity transcended geographic location, Goth self-expression of counternormative masculinity was met with societal pressure. Rural Australian communities were presented as strongly upholding normative, traditional gender expectations as most participants experienced adverse responses, namely, homophobic hostility, employment discrimination, bullying, and/or physical assault, which necessitated modification of gender performance for individual safety and well-being. Participants largely attributed negative reactions to rural communities’ “closed-mindedness” in contrast with the “open-mindedness” they experienced in urban communities. Overall, participants believed urban communities in Australia and beyond displayed greater acceptance of diverse gender performances than rural Australia.

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Tabar, Paul. "“Habiibs”in Australia: Language, Identity and Masculinity." Journal of Intercultural Studies 28, no. 2 (May 2007): 157–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07256860701236591.

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Garton, Stephen. "War and masculinity in twentieth century Australia." Journal of Australian Studies 22, no. 56 (January 1998): 86–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443059809387363.

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Butterss, Philip. "Australian Masculinity on the Road." Media International Australia 95, no. 1 (May 2000): 227–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0009500119.

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In an Australia where the old images of masculinity are no longer serviceable, the road provides an ideal site for films wishing to explore ways of being a man at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, True Love and Chaos, Doing Time for Patsy Cline and Kiss or Kill critique or destabilise traditional models of masculinity, and use the road as a space where masculinity is free to change. However, as Pamela Robertson (1997: 271) has pointed out, the road movie is ‘a genre obsessed with home’. The closure of all four films involves establishing a new form of home, and in doing so demonstrates how difficult it is to reintegrate credibly the changes experienced on the road into a domestic unit that is fulfilling for all its members.

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Louie, Kam. "Angry Chinamen: Finding Masculinity in Australia and China." Comparative Literature: East & West 10, no. 1 (March 2008): 34–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/25723618.2008.12015585.

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Kasim, Muhammadali P. "Political Islam and masculinity: Muslim men in Australia." NORMA 12, no. 2 (April 3, 2017): 181–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2017.1330813.

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Elliott, Karla. "Negotiations between progressive and ‘traditional’ expressions of masculinity among young Australian men." Journal of Sociology 55, no. 1 (October 8, 2018): 108–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783318802996.

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This article draws on feminist theory and critical studies on men and masculinities to explore expressions of masculinity among young, relatively privileged men between the ages of 20 and 29 in Australia. Narrative interviews conducted with these men in 2014 revealed assertions of progressive attitudes alongside reworkings of more hegemonic expressions of masculinity. In particular, participants demonstrated distancing from ideas of protest masculinity and spoke of iterations of softer masculinities in relation to their work lives and friendships. At the same time, they borrowed or co-opted aspects of a perceived version of protest masculinity, such as ‘hard work for hard bodies’. Through such practices and beliefs, participants could juggle contradictory requirements of masculinity in late modernity and perpetuate more privileged modes of masculinity. This article argues that sociological attention must continue to be focused on ongoing, privileged expressions of masculinity, even as encouraging changes emerge in late modern, post-industrial societies.

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Garrison, Kasey, Mary Mary, and Elizabeth Derouet. "Of Men and Masculinity: The Portrayal of Masculinity in a Selection of Award-Winning Australian Young Adult Literature." Knygotyra 76 (July 5, 2021): 228–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/knygotyra.2021.76.82.

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This research investigates the portrayal of masculinity in Australian young adult novels published in 2019. The novels were taken from the 2020 Children’s Books Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year for Older Readers Notables List. Established in 1946, these annual awards are considered the most prominent and prestigious in Australian children’s and young adult literature and are likely to be accessible and promoted to young readers in schools and libraries. The three texts studied were Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte, The Boy who Steals Houses by C.G. Drews, and This is How We Change the Ending by Vikki Wakefield. Using a Critical Content Analysis methodology (Beach et al., 2009), researchers completed a review of the literature and theories around masculinity and chose to analyse three exemplary texts using the attributes of the Hegemonic Masculinity Schema (HMS) and Sensitive New Man Schema (SNMS) as described by Romøren and Stephens (2002). Attributes from the HMS include traits and behaviours like being violent, physical or verbal bullying, and hostile to difference while attributes from the SNMS include being supportive, affectionate, and considerate and respectful of the space and feelings of others (especially females). In this method, researchers identify examples of the attributes within the main characters and minor characters from each of the three books, recording quotes and noting critical incidents depicting aspects of masculinity. Notable findings of the research include the acknowledgment and portrayal of a particular conception of hegemonic masculinity in the selected novels often informed or shaped by the presence of dominant father figures and the absence of the concept of “the mother.” The characters who aligned to the schema used within this research are often overshadowed by a dominant father figure who conformed to an extreme version of hegemonic masculinity and who shaped their child’s actions even if the fathers were absent from the novel. The research reveals commonly held conceptions of masculinity aligned to those used in the schema and demonstrated that young adult literature, like popular media, can be used as a vehicle for the dissemination of such concepts and reveal contemporary understandings of it. Outputs from this research include the development of a modified and more contemporary schema which could be applied to future research. Significantly, this interdisciplinary research bridges the library, education and literature fields to examine the different ways maleness and masculinity are depicted to young adult readers in prize-nominated Australian young adult novels.

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Bellanta, Melissa. "Business Fashion: Masculinity, Class and Dress in 1870s Australia." Australian Historical Studies 48, no. 2 (April 3, 2017): 189–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2017.1300178.

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Hampshire, Kathryn. ""Who Killed the World?": Monstrous Masculinity and Mad Max." Digital Literature Review 4 (January 13, 2017): 177–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/dlr.4.0.177-190.

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In a futuristic, dystopian Australia, Max Rockatansky is a lone warrior struggling against the forces that have ripped his family, and society as a whole, to shreds. From rogue motorcycle gangs to violencebased legal systems, the Mad Max films depict a world in which the most toxic aspects of masculinity have poisoned society, mutating into something far more dangerous — something monstrous. The series presents a version of monstrosity that has sunk its claws into the very masculinity it usually serves to validate; in light of these subversions, this analysis utilizes monster theory in conjunction with gender studies to examine toxic masculinity in the Mad Max franchise

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Nash, Meredith. "Gender on the ropes: An autoethnographic account of boxing in Tasmania, Australia." International Review for the Sociology of Sport 52, no. 6 (November 27, 2015): 734–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1012690215615198.

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This paper documents how I fought for a place as a boxer in a regional Tasmanian boxing gym over a 30 month period. This work builds on existing ethnographic accounts that argue that, for women, becoming a boxer is more than just a matter of developing a fit body and physical skill – it is a continual project of negotiating gendered identity. Using an analytic autoethnographic methodology and drawing on contemporary theories of masculinity, I share my individual experiences as a boxer and, in turn, reveal the complexities of bodywork and gendered identity within Tasmanian amateur boxing culture. My closing discussion analyses the way in which performances of masculinity were precarious, fragmented and anxious.

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Jansens, Freya. "Suit of power: fashion, politics, and hegemonic masculinity in Australia." Australian Journal of Political Science 54, no. 2 (January 23, 2019): 202–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2019.1567677.

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Evans, Raymond. "‘So tough'? Masculinity and rock'n'roll culture in post‐war Australia." Journal of Australian Studies 22, no. 56 (January 1998): 125–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443059809387367.

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Bryant, Lia, and Bridget Garnham. "The fallen hero: masculinity, shame and farmer suicide in Australia." Gender, Place & Culture 22, no. 1 (February 7, 2014): 67–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2013.855628.

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Breslow, Jacob, Jonathan A. Allan, Gregory Wolfman, and Clifton Evers. "Book Reviews." Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities 1, no. 2 (September 1, 2020): 84–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/jbsm.2020.010208.

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Miriam J. Abelson. Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020), 264 pp. ISBN: 9781517903510. Paperback, $25. Andrew Reilly and Ben Barry, eds. Crossing Gender Boundaries: Fashion to Create, Disrupt and Transcend (Bristol: Intellect Books, 2020), 225 pp. ISBN: 9781789381146. Hardback, $106.50. Jonathan A. Allan. Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance (London: Routledge, 2019), 176 pp. ISBN: 9780815374077. Paperback, $31.95. Andrea Waling. White Masculinity in Contemporary Australia: The Good Ol’ Aussie Bloke (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2020), 222 pp. ISBN: 9781138633285. Hardback, $124.

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Prehn, Jacob, and Douglas Ezzy. "Decolonising the health and well-being of Aboriginal men in Australia." Journal of Sociology 56, no. 2 (May 20, 2020): 151–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783319856618.

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Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander men have the worst health of any group in Australia. Despite this, relevant policies do not specifically explain how the issue will be improved. Existing research demonstrates the complexity of the problems facing Australian Indigenous men. The intersection of masculinity and Indigeneity, compounded by colonisation, historical policies, stigma, marginalisation, trauma, grief and loss of identity are key factors that shape these poor health outcomes. These outcomes are acknowledged in federal and some state government policies but not implemented. The article argues for a holistic and decolonised approach to Australian Aboriginal men’s health. Effective models of intervention to improve men’s health outcomes include men’s health clinics, men’s groups, Men’s Sheds, men’s health camps/bush adventure therapy, fathering groups and mentoring programs. Further research needs to be undertaken, with a greater emphasis on preventative health measures, adequate specific funding, culturally and gender appropriate responses to health, and government policy development and implementation covering Aboriginal male health.

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Palmer, Catherine, Vaughan Cruickshank, Murray Drummond, and Donald Reid. "Male primary school teachers, masculinity and identity work in regional Australia." Sport, Education and Society 25, no. 3 (February 15, 2019): 261–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2019.1578207.

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Holmes, Katie. "The 'Mallee-Made Man': Making Masculinity in the Mallee Lands of South Eastern Australia, 1890-1940." Environment and History 27, no. 2 (May 1, 2021): 251–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096734021x16076828553520.

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The southern Australian Mallee is a broad ecoregion comprising distinct landscapes, and the clearing and farming of these lands have presented specific challenges to generations of white settlers. Cultivation of this region was characterised as 'one of the most strenuous and resolute battles with Nature'. So began the shaping of an enduring mythology around the 'Mallee man'. In the context of the settler state, this mythology was forged through race, place and gender, with devastating environmental consequences. It has been consistently evoked to suggest that the specific environment of the Mallee worked to produce a special type of 'home grown' masculinity. At the same time, the State sought to provide a particular type of man to work the Mallee lands. This article examines the ways ideas about masculinity shaped men's engagement with the environment and the impact of government settlement schemes on both the myth and lives of Mallee men.

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Cook, Margaret. "Emotional challenges to masculinity in the 1930s Callide Valley closer settlement, Australia." International Review of Environmental History 7, no. 1 (June 10, 2021): 63–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/ireh.07.01.2021.04.

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Hurst, Dale. "Violence and the Crisis of Masculinity in the USA, Australia and Mongolia." Development 44, no. 3 (September 2001): 99–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.development.1110272.

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King, Kylie, Marisa Schlichthorst, Louise Keogh, Lennart Reifels, Matthew J. Spittal, Andrea Phelps, and Jane Pirkis. "Can Watching a Television Documentary Change the Way Men View Masculinity?" Journal of Men’s Studies 27, no. 3 (December 6, 2018): 287–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1060826518815909.

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Men’s conformity to masculine norms, such as stoicism and self-reliance, has been shown to be associated with a range of negative psychological outcomes. We developed Man Up—a three-part documentary that examined the link between masculinity, mental health, and suicide for men in Australia. We conducted a multifaceted evaluation that included a randomized controlled trial (RCT) and a web survey. RCT participants and web survey respondents were asked how their views of the term “man up” had changed since watching the documentary. This article provides feedback from the 306 men who responded to this question. Participants commented on how the documentary prompted them to rethink stereotypes of masculinity. The findings suggest that the documentary had a positive impact on men.

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Newell, Christopher. "Digging for Disability." Media International Australia 120, no. 1 (August 2006): 18–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0612000106.

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This article reads media coverage of the May 2006 Beaconsfield Gold Mine rescue through the lens of disability. It argues that disability is essential to the way discourses of heroism, masculinity and nationalism were constructed in the rescue of the miners. However, the importance of disability to this, and other aspects of media, politics and society in Australia, was not well recognised — yet raises important questions.

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Due, Clemence. "You Need to Protect the Community'." International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies 6, no. 2 (June 1, 2013): 41–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcis.v6i2.102.

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This paper considers representations of the so-called ‘gang of 49’ which appeared in the mainstream news in Australia from late 2007. In particular, it focuses on how Indigenous masculinity is associated with discourses of criminal behavior, delinquency, violence, and aggression within this media coverage. In examining these gendered discourses of violence, the paper also considers the ways in which the mainstream news media justified its extensive coverage of the so-called ‘gang of 49’ through recourse to the protection of public safety and security, thereby explicitly representing Indigenous males as a threat to the mainstream Australian community. Finally, the implications of this representation are considered in light of previous calls for accountability within the mainstream news media in relation to its coverage of issues concerning marginalised groups of people.

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Margaret, Thornton. "Deconstructing Affirmative Action." International Journal of Discrimination and the Law 2, no. 4 (September 1997): 299–315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/135822919700200404.

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The phrase affirmative action (AA) has been in use in Australia for two decades, mainly in the context of improving the profile of women in the workplace. Federal legislation was enacted in 1986 but the formalistic focus on the preparation of plans, numerosity and the lodgment of reports has deflected attention away from the elusive substance of AA. The procedural veil will be lifted to focus more closely on the nature of the substance, with particular regard to managerial positions. It will be argued that the construction of femininity and masculinity, through what are termed ‘the fictive feminine’ and ‘the imagined masculine’, is resistant to structural change. However, the adoption of co-operative workplace practices, as advocated by a recent influential Australian Government report, does have the potential to challenge the gender polarity.

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Plumwood, Val. "The Struggle for Environmental Philosophy in Australia." Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 3, no. 2 (1999): 157–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853599x00135.

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AbstractAustralian settler philosophy needs to create the basis for two important cultural dialogues, with the philosophy of Aboriginal people on the one hand, and with the land the settler way of life is destroying on the other. Through these interconnected dialogues we might begin the process of resolving in a positive way the unhappy anxieties surrounding Australian identity. Mainstream Australian academic philosophy has certainly not provided fertile ground for such dialogues, and its dominant forms could hardly be further away from Australian indigenous philosophies or from land-sensitive forms of environmental philosophy. It is a paradox that in a continent where Australian Aboriginal people have given land spirituality what is perhaps the world's most powerful and integrated development, settler philosophy contrives to provide what is probably the world's strongest dismissal of other ways to think about the land than those legitimated by western reductionism and rationalism. This paradox, I suggest, can be explained through understanding the ascendancy of ex-colonial masculinity in Australian culture and academic philosophy.

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Whitman, Kirsty. "THE ‘AUSSIE BATTLER’ AND THE HEGEMONY OF CENTRALISING WORKING-CLASS MASCULINITY IN AUSTRALIA." Australian Feminist Studies 28, no. 75 (March 2013): 50–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2012.758026.

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CARTER, NANETTE. "Man with a plan: Masculinity and DIY house building in post-war Australia." Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 1, no. 2 (September 8, 2011): 165–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ajpc.1.2.165_1.

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Schirato, Tony, and Susan Yell. "The ‘New’ Men's Magazines and the Performance of Masculinity." Media International Australia 92, no. 1 (August 1999): 81–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x9909200110.

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In Australia in the 1990s, following on from the phenomenon of the ‘new woman's magazine', a new market in lifestyle magazines for men has emerged, distinct from magazines such as Penthouse, Playboy and Picture. This paper examines the phenomenon of the ‘new’ men's magazines, and argues that these magazines are a site in which contemporary performances of masculinities can be analysed, just as feminist and other analyses have examined and critiqued the production of feminine subjectivities through women's magazines. We introduce the market positioning and profile of these magazines, then analyse shifts in the available discourses for constructing masculine subjectivities as they are exemplified in one of the most successful of these magazines, Ralph. Making use of Judith Butler's concept of performance and her critique of Pierre Bourdieu's notion of the habitus, toe analyse a story in Ralph, concluding that Ralph's performances of ‘stereotypical’ masculinity are self-conscious ‘over-performances’ of a set of discourses and subjectivities which it recognises are already in a sense obsolete.

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Gore, Jennifer, Leanne Fray, Claire Wallington, Kathryn Holmes, and Max Smith. "Australian School Student Aspirations for Military Careers." Armed Forces & Society 43, no. 2 (December 12, 2016): 238–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0095327x16682046.

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Modern military organizations are making a concerted effort to recruit a more diverse range of people, with the role of women in the military at the forefront of debate. In Australia, in response to the changing role of the military and with the aim of positioning the military as an “employer of choice” for women, females are targeted as early as high school. Using data from a study of 6,492 Australian school students in Years 3–12, we examine student aspirations for military careers. Student aspirations were influenced by traditional perceptions of the military as a primarily masculine enterprise. Key reasons for student interest included dominant notions of masculinity, familial military experience, career options, and enlistment benefits. We argue that current views of the military among school children signal the need to shift such perceptions to appeal to a wider range of people and attract a more diverse workforce.

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Reid, Brian. "Masculinity of Birth Registrations in Australia, 1880-1915: Another Aspect of the Population Debate." Health and History 2, no. 1 (2000): 144. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40111380.

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Reddin, Julie, and Christopher Sonn. "Masculinity, Social Support, and Sense of Community: The Men's Group Experience in Western Australia." Journal of Men's Studies 11, no. 2 (January 1, 2003): 207–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3149/jms.1102.207.

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Marchant, Teresa. "Keep going: career perspectives on ageing and masculinity of self-employed tradesmen in Australia." Construction Management and Economics 31, no. 8 (August 2013): 845–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2013.808353.

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Williams, Nombasa. "A Critical Review of the Literature: Engendering the Discourse of Masculinities Matter for Parenting African Refugee Men." American Journal of Men's Health 5, no. 2 (December 29, 2009): 104–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557988309346055.

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According to the literature on culturally and linguistically diverse parenting, refugee parenting practices and styles that are normative in countries of origin may not be sanctioned in Australia. In the case of refugee parenting, beliefs, practices, and values may be decentered in pre-resettlement contexts where survival becomes the primary concern. Engendering the discourse of masculinities to reflect a relationship between child protection and the experience of refugee parenting for African men in both pre- and post-resettlement contexts will inform culturally competent practice, intervention, and community development that is inclusive of their gender-specific needs. This article brings an expanded masculinities perspective to the ecology of refugee parenting for resettled African men resulting from larger research findings with focus group participants. Incorporating notions of masculinity into the child protection discourse is an attempt not only to reduce existing gender under- and misrepresentation among South Australian refugees but also to ensure greater visibility and increase the role of refugee men in the process of developing culturally relevant and appropriate policies, practices, and services to assist successful resettlement transitions while strengthening family well-being. The concept of masculinities, this article argues, must be treated as integral to any approach to working with refugees, particularly in areas that penetrate and may define the quality of their life experiences, expectations, and aspirations. Masculinities matter. Exploring refugee male perceptions, interpretations, and enactment of masculinity may unmask the differential experiences of refugee women from men and ensure the integration and operationalization of these differences into child protection services and practice.

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Sogari, Giovanni, Diana Bogueva, and Dora Marinova. "Australian Consumers’ Response to Insects as Food." Agriculture 9, no. 5 (May 22, 2019): 108. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agriculture9050108.

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Many research articles have been published about people’s perceptions and acceptance of eating insects as novel foods in Western countries; however, only a few studies have focused on Australian consumers. The aim of this work is to explore attitudes towards edible insects of younger Australians (Millennials and Generation Z) with data collection carried out in Sydney, Australia. Two representative surveys were conducted in 2018 and 2019 using open-ended questions. The main findings suggest that there is low willingness to accept edible insects as a meat substitute among Australian consumers, due mainly to the strong psychological barriers such as neophobia and disgust, combined with a perception about threats to masculinity. Environmental and nutritional benefits, even when recognised, do not seem to influence consumers to consider insects as a food alternative. In the near future, as young people become more aware of sustainability and climate change issues related to food production, the impact of the potential benefits of insects might grow. Furthermore, a positive sensory experience might improve the acceptability of insects as food. Introducing new processed, insect-based products may help establish familiarity with such novel food options and open up new business opportunities.

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Nascimento, Marcos, and Raewyn Connell. "Reflecting on twenty years of Masculinities: an interview with Raewyn Connell." Ciência & Saúde Coletiva 22, no. 12 (December 2017): 3975–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1413-812320172212.27242016.

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Abstract Raewyn Connell is very well known for her work on social theory and gender studies, and more specifically on masculinities. She was one of the founders of masculinities research and her 1995 book Masculinities is considered one of the most important references on the topic. Connell's concept of hegemonic masculinity has been particularly influential and has attracted much debate. She has written extensively about its applications to education, health, and violence prevention. Our conversation was about her trajectory as an intellectual, her commitment to gender justice, and the development of her work from Australia to the global scale.

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Evers, Clifton. "‘The Point’: surfing, geography and a sensual life of men and masculinity on the Gold Coast, Australia." Social & Cultural Geography 10, no. 8 (December 2009): 893–908. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649360903305783.

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Dodd, Olga, and Bowen Zheng. "Does Board Cultural Diversity Contributed by Foreign Directors Improve Firm Performance? Evidence from Australia." Journal of Risk and Financial Management 15, no. 8 (July 27, 2022): 332. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jrfm15080332.

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Australian firms hire an increasing number of foreign directors who bring various cultural perspectives to their boards’ conversations. We evaluate the effect of board cultural diversity contributed by foreign directors on firm performance for a sample of Australian companies, constituents of ASX200. We employ Hofstede’s six cultural dimensions to estimate board cultural diversity. We document a positive relationship between board cultural diversity and firm performance as measured by Tobin’s q and ROA after controlling for various board and firm characteristics. This suggests that more culturally diverse boards may bring benefits to their firms that outweigh the potential costs of conflict and miscommunication caused by cultural differences. Our finding holds after controlling for firm and time fixed effects, implementing an instrumental variable approach, controlling for a firm’s foreign operations and presence, and using alternative cultural diversity measures. We find that not all aspects of cultural differences matter, and it is the diversity in masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation dimensions that positively determine firm performance. This finding on the positive effect of board cultural diversity for Australian firms contrasts with the evidence from other countries, highlighting that the value of cultural diversity can differ across countries and over time.

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Kannan, Ashwini, Maggie Kirkman, Rasa Ruseckaite, and Sue M. Evans. "Prostate care and prostate cancer from the perspectives of undiagnosed men: a systematic review of qualitative research." BMJ Open 9, no. 1 (January 2019): e022842. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022842.

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ObjectivesTo summarise and evaluate evidence from men who had not been diagnosed with prostate cancer about their perspectives on prostate care and prostate cancer.DesignA systematic review of qualitative research, on the perspectives of non-cancerous men regarding prostate cancer prevention and care.SettingA wide range of settings including primary and secondary care.ParticipantsMen from varied demographic backgrounds ranging between 40 to 80 years of age.Data sourcesThree databases (Ovid MEDLINE, Informit, PsychInfo) and Google Scholar were searched for peer-reviewed papers in English reporting research using qualitative methods (in-depth or semistructured interviews and focus groups).Review methodsThematic analysis using inductive and deductive codes. Thematic synthesis was achieved through iterative open, axial and thematic coding.ResultsEight papers (reporting seven studies conducted in Australia, UK and Germany) met inclusion criteria. Four major themes were identified: understanding prostate cancer, masculinity and prostate cancer, barriers to prostate healthcare and managing prostate health. It was reported that men often did not understand screening, prostate anatomy or their prostate cancer risk, and that concerns about masculinity could deter men from seeking health checks. There was evidence of a need to improve doctor–patient communication about case finding.ConclusionFurther investigation is required to identify and understand any differences in the perspectives and experiences of men who have not been diagnosed with prostate cancer in metropolitan and regional areas, especially where there may be variations in access to healthcare

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Litherland, Steven, Peter Miller, Nic Droste, and Kathryn Graham. "Male Barroom Aggression among Members of the Australian Construction Industry: Associations with Heavy Episodic Drinking, Trait Variables and Masculinity Factors." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 13 (June 24, 2021): 6769. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18136769.

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Introduction and Aims: Past research indicates heavy episodic drinking (HED), trait aggression, male honour and conformity to masculine norms are risk factors for male barroom aggression (MBA) perpetration. However, little is known about the impact of these variables on experiences of MBA victimization. Further, data derived previously, particularly in relation to perpetration have come from relatively low-risk samples comprising university students, limiting the generalizability of findings to other, at-risk male groups. Thus, the present study assessed the impact of the aforementioned variables as well as personality constructs of impulsivity and narcissism on both the perpetration of and victimization from MBA among a high-risk sample sourced from male members of the Australian construction industry. Method: A purposive sample of Australian male construction workers aged 18 to 69 years (n = 476, Mage = 25.90, SDage = 9.44) completed individual interviews at their current place of employment or while training at various trade schools in Geelong and Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Items related to past month HED, past year experiences of verbal and physical MBA (perpetration and victimization), trait aggression’s four factors (physical, verbal, anger, hostility), impulsivity, narcissism, male honour and conformity to masculine norms. Results: Participants reported high levels of verbal (24.2%) and physical (21%) MBA perpetration and verbal (33.6%) and physical (31.1%) MBA victimization. Hierarchical binary logistic regression analyses identified HED as the strongest predictor of aggression involvement, while trait physical aggression, trait anger, narcissism and conformity to norms endorsing violence and a need to win were significantly and positively associated with MBA perpetration. Conclusions: The present study reinforces the key relationships between heavy drinking and aspects of personality and MBA, while also highlighting narcissism as a risk factor for barroom aggression perpetration. Indeed, personality profiles and HED appear to exert stronger influences on MBA perpetration than socially constructed masculinity factors, most of which were unrelated to aggression involvement in bars, clubs or pubs.

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Adegbosin, Adeyinka Emmanuel, David Plummer, Matthew Yau, Richard Franklin, Reinie Cordier, and Jing Sun. "Larrikins? Wowsers? Hipsters? Snags? What does it mean to be a ‘real man’ in modern-day Australia?" Journal of Sociology 55, no. 3 (March 29, 2019): 551–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783319837601.

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Gender is constructed from social and cultural meanings that dynamically shift and vary. Previous work has assumed that the constructions of masculinity in Australia are like those in other Western societies, and typically focus on qualities such as physical strength, courage and sometimes military engagement. This study explores whether these assumptions hold, by conducting telephone interviews among 617 Queensland men, aged 18 years and above, across all geographical parts of Queensland. This survey was administered in 2013, as part of the Queensland Social Survey series. The study explores the diverse meanings associated with being a ‘real man’ given by the survey participants. Three main dimensions emerged from the thematic analysis: physicality; personality and character; social roles and relationships. The study confirmed that masculinities are dynamic and complex. Responses revealed a surprising emphasis on character and morality 44.5% (n = 684) as defining manhood, as against physical qualities 13.7% (n = 153).

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Saunders, Skye, and Patricia Easteal AM. "The nature, pervasiveness and manifestations of sexual harassment in rural Australia: Does ‘masculinity’ of workplace make a difference?" Women's Studies International Forum 40 (September 2013): 121–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2013.05.013.

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Coleborne, Catharine. "White men and weak masculinity: men in the public asylums in Victoria, Australia, and New Zealand, 1860s–1900s." History of Psychiatry 25, no. 4 (November 13, 2014): 468–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957154x14543758.

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Hardtke, Mellissa, Leila Khanjaninejad, Candace Lang, and Noushin Nasiri. "Gender Complexity and Experience of Women Undergraduate Students within the Engineering Domain." Sustainability 15, no. 1 (December 27, 2022): 467. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15010467.

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Despite continuous efforts for reducing gender inequality in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM), engineering still steadfastly remains one of the least equitable fields in Australian universities. There has been an increasing growth of international scholarship on women’s underrepresentation in engineering; nevertheless, research on understanding contributing factors to the Australian women students’ participation in engineering is relatively underdeveloped. To address this knowledge gap, we examine the experience of women undergraduate students and explore influential factors that contribute to the complexity of pursuing engineering. Applying a qualitative approach, we conducted 16 interviews with women undergraduate students enrolled across five engineering courses at Macquarie University, Australia. The results of the thematic analysis indicate that women students often have a supporting network of relationships and view themselves as intellectually fit to study engineering. However, they have been facing several interrelated obstacles that negatively impact their experiences and persistence in engineering. Findings show that gendered perceptions around femininity and masculinity appear to be the origin of gender stereotypes surrounding engineering identity. These not only negatively impact women students’ experiences within the bound of university but also create systemic barriers in the future workplace environment and opportunities. These (mis)perceptions have actively and passively made women students feel out of place, doubt their abilities and feel alienated. We offer suggestions to shift engineering identity outside the dominant masculine construct towards ‘co-construct’ and ‘co-enact’. This will create windows of opportunities to move towards gender equality in engineering.

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Kentlyn, Susan. "‘Who's the Man and Who's the Woman?’ Same-sex Couples in Queensland ‘Doing’ Gender and Domestic Labour." Queensland Review 14, no. 2 (July 2007): 111–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s132181660000670x.

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This article reports an exploratory study that investigated domestic labour in same-sex households, to the best of my knowledge the first in Australia to do so. In-depth semi-structured interviews with 12 couples in Southeast Queensland reveal that these lesbians and gay men do not take on heteronormative gender roles when doing domestic labour, and that their practices reflect a variety of styles of sharing, with no pattern emerging as clearly dominant. Theoretical frameworks conceptualising gender as performative, and queer theory's figuring of identity as a constellation of multiple and unstable positions, suggest how the performance of gender may vary in different domains of social and cultural space, and in relation to other actors in those spaces. I have conceptualised this process by means of an analogy with the modulation of sound such that each person adjusts the balance between treble (conventionally feminine behaviours, attitudes and attributes) and bass (conventionally masculine behaviours and attributes). Rather than being ‘the man’ or ‘the woman’, or even displaying a single form of gay masculinity or lesbian femininity, lesbians and gay men can be seen to perform varying degrees of masculinity and femininity in the private space of the home, and in relation to their intimate partners, by the way they engage with domestic labour. Finally, I reflect on how the socio-geographical specificities of being situated in Southeast Queensland may have impacted on this research.

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Beilharz, Peter, and Sian Supski. "A sociology of caravans." Thesis Eleven 142, no. 1 (August 28, 2017): 34–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513617727892.

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Why do caravans matter? Australians, like others, holiday in them, travel in them, cook, eat, drink, play, sleep and have sex in them. They also live in them, often involuntarily. Caravans have a longer history than this, however caravan life has almost no presence in existing historical or cultural sociology scholarship. Our immediate interest is in caravans in Australia, modernity and mobility. Some broader interest is apparent. Theoretical arguments about mobility on a global scale have been developed by Bauman and Urry. Sociologists like Jasper have connected mobility, masculinity and automobility in Restless Nation. The sociologist and writer Marina Lewycka has used caravans as the locus of everyday life study in her novel Two Caravans. In this paper we background some of these broader issues, and offer a case study of postwar caravan manufacturing. This paper anticipates a larger possible research project in these fields. We anticipate this project raising themes like freedom, mobility, escape, utopia; images of domesticity on wheels, décor and design, materials, technology, DIY production and Fordism; caravan parks as homes and as itinerant and long-term accommodation. These themes and images are also necessarily interwoven with class, gender, sex and age. We are interested in the possibilities of using the caravan as a carrier for making sense of postwar Australia.

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Tufail, Waqas, and Scott Poynting. "A Common ‘Outlawness’: Criminalisation of Muslim Minorities in the UK and Australia." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 2, no. 3 (November 1, 2013): 43–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v2i3.125.

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Since mass immigration recruitments of the post-war period, ‘othered’ immigrants to both the UK and Australia have faced ‘mainstream’ cultural expectations to assimilate, and various forms of state management of their integration. Perceived failure or refusal to integrate has historically been constructed as deviant, though in certain policy phases this tendency has been mitigated by cultural pluralism and official multiculturalism. At critical times, hegemonic racialisation of immigrant minorities has entailed their criminalisation, especially that of their young men. In the UK following the ‘Rushdie Affair’ of 1989, and in both Britain and Australia following these states’ involvement in the 1990-91 Gulf War, the ‘Muslim Other’ was increasingly targeted in cycles of racialised moral panic. This has intensified dramatically since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the ensuing ‘War on Terror’. The young men of Muslim immigrant communities in both these nations have, over the subsequent period, been the subject of heightened popular and state Islamophobia in relation to: perceived ‘ethnic gangs’; alleged deviant, predatory masculinity including so-called ‘ethnic gang rape’; and paranoia about Islamist ‘radicalisation’ and its supposed bolstering of terrorism. In this context, the earlier, more genuinely social-democratic and egalitarian, aspects of state approaches to ‘integration’ have been supplanted, briefly glossed by a rhetoric of ‘social inclusion’, by reversion to increasingly oppressive assimilationist and socially controlling forms of integrationism. This article presents some preliminary findings from fieldwork in Greater Manchester over 2012, showing how mainly British-born Muslims of immigrant background have experienced these processes.

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Mukandi, Bryan, David Singh, Karla Brady, Jon Willis, Tanya Sinha, Deborah Askew, and Chelsea Bond. "“So we tell them”: articulating strong Black masculinities in an urban Indigenous community." AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 15, no. 3 (September 2019): 253–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1177180119876721.

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There is a growing literature on Indigenous masculinities written by scholars in North America, Hawai‘i and New Zealand which draws on a variety of approaches. While there are signs of scholarly interest in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander masculinities in Australia, this has yet to translate into a distinct body of work. This article is a potential opening onto such a future corpus, foregrounding and privileging how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men understand themselves. Interviews with 13 men, ranging in age from young teenagers through to Elders—among whom were Traditional Owners, school pupils, university students, community workers, health professionals and retirees—yielded a conception of Indigenous masculinities not concerned with recovering a lost masculinity. Rather, what was presented to us is a distinct conception of Indigenous masculinities rooted in place; a relationality motivated by an intergenerational sense of responsibility; a nuanced idea of “acting hard.”

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Elliott, Karla, and Steven Roberts. "Balancing generosity and critique: reflections on interviewing young men and implications for research methodologies and ethics." Qualitative Research 20, no. 6 (February 16, 2020): 767–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794120904881.

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Feminist research methodologies have challenged power imbalances in qualitative interviews and gendered inequalities more broadly. We explore the methodological and ethical complexities of, and implications for, doing feminist research with young men. We draw on two studies in which narrative interviews with young men were conducted: one in 2014 and 2015 with 28 middle-class men between the ages of 20 and 31 living in Australia and Germany; and one a longitudinal study beginning in 2009 in the south-east of England with 24 working-class men between the ages of 18 and 24. We explore the production of narratives in interviews with young men, rapport-building, and interactional issues. Balancing generosity and critique emerges as a key ethical and methodological consideration for research conducted with young men. We suggest that negotiating the tensions of this balance can hold key possibilities for research and for proliferating alternative modes of masculinity.

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