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Women Drinking Alcohol: Assembling A Perspective From A Victorian Country Town, Australia, Gordon R. Waitt, Susannah Clement Jan 2016

Women Drinking Alcohol: Assembling A Perspective From A Victorian Country Town, Australia, Gordon R. Waitt, Susannah Clement

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Gender is a key lens for interpreting meanings and practices of drinking. In response to the overwhelming amount of social and medical alcohol studies that focus on what extent people conform to norms of healthy drinking, this article extends critical feminist geographical engagement with assemblage thinking to explore how the technologies of biopower covertly materialised as bodily habits may be preserved and challenged. We suggest an embodied engagement with alcohol to help think through the gendered practices and spatial imaginaries of rural drinking life. Our account draws on interviews with women of different cohort generations with Anglo-Celtic ancestry living in …


Developing A Whole-Of-Community Campaign Targeting Underage Drinking In A Pro-Drinking Culture, Sandra C. Jones, Kelly Lee Andrews Jan 2014

Developing A Whole-Of-Community Campaign Targeting Underage Drinking In A Pro-Drinking Culture, Sandra C. Jones, Kelly Lee Andrews

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Abstract presented at the 8th Annual National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing & Media, 19-21 August 2014, Atlanta, United States