Our tax money get's pissed away on her research as well :thumbdown:
Imagine the uproar and bra burning if there was a 'Men's Studies Department' at major universities.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a914016627&db=all
Morality and Patriarchal White Sovereignty
THREE STORIES OF GANG RAPE IN AUSTRALIA
Abstract
This article offers a reading of three separate stories of gang rapes that have been prominent in the Australian media since 2000. The men involved - an Indigenous leader, young Sydney men identified as Muslim and several ostensibly un-raced professional footballers, have been positioned through different legal outcomes, media representations and through a prominently deployed discourse of morality. The article locates the gang rape stories in mutual inter-relationship with the expression of racism in Australia and the performance of 'patriarchal white sovereignty' by the Australian state in the 2000s in the global climate since 11 September 2001. It argues that the politics of race and whiteness, and the protocols for their speaking, have been central in the telling of the rape stories. These stories of gang rape have also created differently racialized positions for women including some remarkably respectful mainstream representations of the women raped by non-white men. The article concludes that these stories perform a gendered and raced moral justification for the racist and colonialist policies of the Australian state, both within national borders and beyond, that characterized the national government led by Prime Minister John Howard (1996-2007).
http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/978-1-4438-0169-0-sample.pdf
Part Two, on “Gender, Violence and Protection” begins with Barbara
Baird’s analysis of “men behaving badly” in Chapter Six. Baird takes up
R. W. Connell’s pioneering concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in a
discussion of recent (allegations of) bad behaviour by professional
footballers in Australia. The chapter details the material and discursive
responses to public revelations of abusive behaviour by footballers and
finds that when men who embody the hegemonic ideals of masculinity
behave badly, a range of strategies conspire to mitigate the behaviour.
Baird outlines the value of silence, the value of boys and men, the value of
women, of money and of an aberration, to argue that discourses of race
and whiteness are central to understanding the maintenance of hegemonic
masculinity.
http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue19/baird.htm
The social and cultural changes that have followed the fall of the Suharto regime in Indonesia in 1998 provide a backdrop to the articles included in this issue. The decade since the end of the New Order has seen an increasing public presence of women and enhanced freedom of speech for all, although neither of these phenomena goes without contest. The rise of political Islam is the source of most opposition to women's new freedoms and decentralisation has, in some regions, lead to the implementation of conservative measures which would not otherwise have found public space.[1] The interrelation of these changes with the wider sweep of globalisation and, in some articles, with the legacies of pre-modern ethnic cultures also set the scene.
