Reconstructing Violent Rural Masculinities: Responding to Fractures in the Rural Gender Order in Australia

Pease, Bob

doi:10.3149/csm.0202.154

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“…Within Western psychological thought, the masculine-coded qualities of agentic selfhood, autonomy, control, independence, and confidence are considered mentally healthy while the feminine-coded qualities of dependence, emotionality, low self-esteem, lack of self-control, and passivity are aligned with mental illness (Burman et al, 1996; Chesler, 2005; Cosgrove & Riddle, 2004; Ussher, 2017; Wirth-Cauchon, 2001). The “person” of Western thought, and of psychology and medicine, is therefore male and the “mentally healthy individual” is synonymous with healthy masculinity (Pease, 2010; Ussher, 2017). Feelings described earlier by the women in our study, such as fear, sadness, low self-esteem, and low self-confidence are therefore at once highly feminized and indicative of mental illness (Barrett & Bliss-Moreau, 2009; Broverman et al, 1972; Cosgrove & Riddle, 2004; Poland & Caplan, 2004; Ussher, 2017).…”

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Rethinking Women’s Mental Health After Intimate Partner Violence

Moulding

Franzway

Wendt

et al. 2020

Violence Against Women

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This article reports on mixed methods research into intimate partner violence (IPV) and women’s mental health. Using an online national survey and life history interviews, quantitative and qualitative data analysis demonstrates how IPV negatively impacts women’s sense of self, with other multiple losses in relation to income, work, housing, and social participation further undermining recovery into the long term. The feminist concept of sexual politics is used to critically examine current responses to mental health problems after IPV, and a feminist-informed response is outlined that addresses the gender inequalities underpinning IPV and the psychological distress it produces.

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Rethinking Women’s Mental Health After Intimate Partner Violence

Moulding

Franzway

Wendt

et al. 2020

Violence Against Women

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“…Many scholars point to social changes wrought by economic restructuring (e.g. Carrington & Scott, 2008;Hogg & Carrington, 2006;Pease, 2010) or prolonged drought (Alston, 2006), for example, in forcing women out of the (often agriculturally-based) home and into the paid workforce. Such moves undoubtedly also cause changes in understandings of gender norms and roles.…”

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Bushfires are “men's business”: The importance of gender and rural hegemonic masculinity

Tyler

Fairbrother

2013

Journal of Rural Studies

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This paper offers a critical review of the international literature on gender, disaster and rural masculinities. Empirical reference is made to bushfires in Australia, offering new evidence from the State of Victoria. Bushfires loom large in the Australian imagination and there is an increasing amount of research now being conducted in relation to bushfire events. A significant gap remains, however, with regard to the issue of gender. Despite increasing evidence that gender plays a significant role with reference to disaster risk assessment, preparation and response, a gendered analysis of bushfire preparation and response has not been a sustained research priority. Building on the writing of others, a critical assessment is provided of the concept of a specifically Australian, rural hegemonic masculinity as a possible way of better understanding the social dimensions of gender, and bushfire preparation and response in the Australian context. This conceptual consideration is extended to draw attention to the process whereby alternative conceptions of masculinities may emerge. This recognition provides a basis for further research on gender and disaster internationally.

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“…As Carrington and colleagues (2013, p. 5) explain, rural communities are "not static, ahistorical or placeless", and we must consider "the interaction between sociality and spatiality." The "sociality" of RRR spaces can include particular manifestations of masculinity, ideological beliefs "about resilience and self-reliance" (Carrington et al, 2013, p. 5), privacy, a suspicion of outsiders, and a tendency towards conservative political and social views (Pease, 2010;Ragusa, 2017). In the Australian context, we must also understand RRR spaces as ones marked by the ongoing violence of colonisation, with processes and impacts of colonisation unfolding differently across urban, remote, rural, and regional locations (Blagg & Antony, 2019;Wendt, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Numerous authors have pointed out the ways in which the small, close-knit communities that characterise RRR locations can function as a barrier to disclosure, to survivors receiving appropriate support, and to a safe and appropriate criminal justice response being enacted (Adams & Hunter, 2007;Carrington et al, 2013;Dietrich & Mason, 1998;George & Harris, 2014). Some RRR communities may be more likely to condone rigid, stereotypical gender roles, and to hold violence-supportive attitudes (Adams & Hunter, 2007;Carrington et al, 2013;DeKeseredy, forthcoming;Ermacora, 1998;George & Harris, 2014;Hall-Sanchez, 2014;Hooker et al, 2019;Pease, 2010). Geographical isolation also creates substantive barriers to help-seeking and support, with this isolation "drawing a veil of privacy over any violence that might occur" (Carrington et al, 2013, p. 8).…”

Section: Situating Sexual Violence In Rrr Space and Placementioning

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#MeToo in regional, rural and remote Australia: An analysis of regional newspapers reports profiling the movement

Loney-Howes¹,

Fileborn²

2020

International Journal of Rural Criminology

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The #MeToo movement sparked a global conversation and moment of reckoning in relation to sexual violence. The hashtag campaign, developed from a tweet sent by actress Alyssa Milano (though the phrase was originally coined by African American activist Tarana Burke some decade earlier), provided a moment for survivors to share their experiences in a context in which they were perhaps more likely to be supported and believed. The #MeToo movement also created an opportunity to engage in a more productive dialogue about the causes and the challenges underpinning the prevention of gender-based violence. Yet, #MeToo has been subject to substantive critique, particularly in relation to modes of representation within media reporting. In addition, there is also little is known about how the #MeToo movement was impactful beyond major urban centres and resonated in regional, rural, and remote (RRR) locations. This article addresses both these issues drawing on a thematic analysis of 70 newspaper articles from RRR newspapers in Australia reporting on or responding to the #MeToo movement. While the data reveals some progressive approaches to documenting how the #MeToo movement impacted some RRR communities, as well as profiling some of the key challenges facing RRR communities in addressing gender-based violence, the specific voices represented in newspaper reporting, continues to reflect the perspectives of white, heterosexual women. We conclude by suggesting further research exploring the nature of reporting on #MeToo in other RRR spaces is needed to understand the full extent to which sexual violence is understood and represented. In addition, more specific work with survivors in RRR Australia and globally is vital to understand the dynamics and complexities of responding to and preventing sexual violence and the challenges associated with the geographies of speaking out.

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Reconstructing Violent Rural Masculinities: Responding to Fractures in the Rural Gender Order in Australia

Cited by 17 publications

References 23 publications

Rethinking Women’s Mental Health After Intimate Partner Violence

Rethinking Women’s Mental Health After Intimate Partner Violence

Bushfires are “men's business”: The importance of gender and rural hegemonic masculinity

#MeToo in regional, rural and remote Australia: An analysis of regional newspapers reports profiling the movement

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