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Submission To The Senate Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry Into Violence, Abuse And Neglect Against People With Disability In Institutional And Residential Settings, Including The Gender And Age Related Dimensions, And The Particular Situation Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander People With Disability, And Culturally And Linguistically Diverse People With Disability (26 June), Linda Roslyn Steele Jan 2015

Submission To The Senate Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry Into Violence, Abuse And Neglect Against People With Disability In Institutional And Residential Settings, Including The Gender And Age Related Dimensions, And The Particular Situation Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander People With Disability, And Culturally And Linguistically Diverse People With Disability (26 June), Linda Roslyn Steele

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

This submission is made to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee’s (‘Senate Committee’) inquiry into violence, abuse and neglect against people with disability in institutional and residential settings, including the gender and age related dimensions, and the particular situation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability, and culturally and linguistically diverse people with disability (‘the Senate Inquiry’).


Work With Men To End Violence Against Women: A Critical Stocktake, Michael Flood Jan 2015

Work With Men To End Violence Against Women: A Critical Stocktake, Michael Flood

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

This paper provides a critical assessment of efforts to involve men in the prevention of men's violence against women. Although there is a substantial evidence base attesting to the effectiveness of at least some strategies and interventions, this field is also limited in important ways. Violence prevention efforts often have focused on changing men's attitudes, rather than also seeking to transform structural and institutional inequalities. While feminist and queer scholarship has explored diversities and pluralities in the organisation of sexuality, much violence prevention work often assumes a homogenously heterosexual male constituency. Too often this work is conceptually simplistic with regard …


From Work With Men And Boys To Changes Of Social Norms And Reduction Of Inequities In Gender Relations: A Conceptual Shift In Prevention Of Violence Against Women And Girls, Rachel K. Jewkes, Michael G. Flood, James Lang Jan 2015

From Work With Men And Boys To Changes Of Social Norms And Reduction Of Inequities In Gender Relations: A Conceptual Shift In Prevention Of Violence Against Women And Girls, Rachel K. Jewkes, Michael G. Flood, James Lang

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Violence perpetrated by and against men and boys is a major public health problem. Although individual men's use of violence differs, engagement of all men and boys in action to prevent violence against women and girls is essential. We discuss why this engagement approach is theoretically important and how prevention interventions have developed from treating men simply as perpetrators of violence against women and girls or as allies of women in its prevention, to approaches that seek to transform the relations, social norms, and systems that sustain gender inequality and violence. We review evidence of intervention effectiveness in the reduction …