Guest editorial: Australian masculinities

Moore, Clive

doi:10.1080/14443059809387357

Cited by 9 publications

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“…This serves as a reminder that although general male-friendly recommendations provide a helpful starting place, it is important to recognize and consider nuances and variations between men's lived experiences, social identities and contexts, gender norms, and individual histories and values. This position aligns with cautions about failing to account for the diversity of masculinities between men and in men (Liu, 2005) and recognizes the multiplicity of masculinities in a culturally and generationally diverse nation (Moore & Crotty, 2007).…”

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“…Australia has several similarities with the United States including both being a diverse immigrant nation with a history of colonialization and the sharing of many similar Western values. Yet, Australia has unique idealized masculinity images in its national narrative including the independent, rugged bushman, the protective surf life saver, the loyal and sacrificing Anzac soldier, and the tough and skillful sportsman; all of whom are portrayed as Caucasian (Moore & Crotty, 2007;Murrie, 1998). Each of these ideals have risk factors; the bushman may be vulnerable to isolation, the life saver to neglect his own welfare, the solider to trauma, and the sportsman to workaholism and perfectionism.…”

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Counseling Men: Treatment Recommendations From Australian Men’s Therapists

Beel

Brownlow

Jeffries

et al. 2019

The Journal of Men’s Studies

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Many of the contemporary treatment recommendations and guides for adapting therapy for men originates from the context of the United States. This qualitative study invited 15 Australian therapists, who advertised themselves as working with men, to describe their recommendations for male-friendly counseling. Three themes and 14 subthemes were identified, each explained from an understanding of their male client group's experiences and common male norms. The themes included ensuring a safe space, to enact masculinityinformed respect, and to enhance client awareness and motivation. Therapists' suggestions for working with Australian men were congruent with recommendations in the existing literature, however variations were noted in how traditionally masculine or feminineconsistent their emphasis was.

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Counseling Men: Treatment Recommendations From Australian Men’s Therapists

Beel

Brownlow

Jeffries

et al. 2019

The Journal of Men’s Studies

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“…The focus was on individual pathology and therapies designed to cure disease, and the period saw marked weakening of departments of public health and a shift of power and resources to hospital-based services (O'Connor-Fleming and Parker 2001). In the 1970s Australian men felt the impact of feminism that challenged public and domestic patriarchy and changed work practices making men less economically autonomous (Moore 1998). Models of public health were also changing, and a shift from diagnosis and treatment to disease prevention occurred after the 1970s.…”

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Health Behaviors, Prostate Cancer, and Masculinities

Oliffe

2007

Men and Masculinities

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Epidemiological data indicate that men are overrepresented in mortality rates attributed to both natural causes (e.g., ischemic heart disease) and certain deaths caused by external causes (e.g., motor vehicle accidents). Men's health behaviors are consistently linked to their poor health outcomes, and diverse explanations about what underpins men's health behaviors have been presented by commentators and researchers alike.Recently connections between men's behaviors and dominant ideals of masculinity have provided empirical snapshots about the intersections of gender and health and specific illness events. This study uses a retrospective life course method to describe the connections between health behaviors and masculinity across time among three Anglo-Australian men who were born in the 1920s and 1930s and grew up in Victoria, Australia. The findings from this study illustrate how health behaviors intersect with shifting social constructions of masculinity and are mediated by factors including age, history, social class, culture, and illness.

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“…In an Australian context, the ideal man shares many of the above traits but also maintains some qualities unique to Australian culture and imaginings of Australian (white, colonial) masculinity. Qualities such as mateship, rebelliousness, egalitarianism, antiauthoritarianism, and patriotism become embedded within the white, able-bodied heterosexual male and can be found in the romanticized figures of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) soldiers (Donoghue and Tranter 2015), the surf lifesaver (Evers 2004), and the swagman (Moore 1998).…”

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“We Are So Pumped Full of Shit by the Media”

Waling

2016

Men and Masculinities

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Men's lifestyle magazines have long since been the focus of theorists in their examination of masculinity. However, research concerning men's responses to such content, and whether these representations speak to their perceptions on embodying particular forms of masculinity in an Australian context, is largely absent. To understand how Australian men conceptualize their own ideas about masculinity and identity, interviews were conducted with twenty Australian men who were asked to peruse copies of men's lifestyle magazines while pondering what it means to be masculine. Engaging with the theoretical frameworks of representational masculinity and masculine reformulation patterns, the results of this study found that the men interviewed identified four themes of social pressure perpetuated by these magazines regarding their own formation of a masculine identity. These include media representation and cultural consumption pressures, body image and muscularity pressures, performative sex and desirability expectations, and the fear of social judgment from both those who expect, and those who reject, particular

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Guest editorial: Australian masculinities

Cited by 9 publications

References 23 publications

Counseling Men: Treatment Recommendations From Australian Men’s Therapists

Counseling Men: Treatment Recommendations From Australian Men’s Therapists

Health Behaviors, Prostate Cancer, and Masculinities

“We Are So Pumped Full of Shit by the Media”

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