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Dr Michael Flood

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15 Dec

Domestic and family violence’s impact: Of people who had hospital stays because of DFV, 68% were female and 32% male. Females were more likely to have multiple hospital stays. Most females were hospitalised by partners, but most males hospitalised by *other family members*. 1/4

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Of females in hospital because of DV, for 75% this was due to an intimate partner. But for males, only 29% was due to an intimate partner, and 71% due to another family member or parent. See the AIHW report, p. 39. aihw.gov.au/reports/domest… @aihw 2/4

Among people put into hospital by their partner’s domestic violence, 85% are women. Of all people hospitalised due to domestic violence by an intimate partner (14,958 females and 2,744 males), women were 85% of victims (about 5 in 6) and men were 15% of victims (about 1 in 6) 3/4

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3 Dec

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Putting perpetrators in the picture: This new Briefing Paper (4p) on domestic and sexual violence from the QUT Centre for Justice, by Michael Flood and Lula Dembele, calls for reframing how this violence is understood, measured, & addressed. research.qut.edu.au/centre-for-jus… @DLulabele 1/9

Too often, domestic and sexual violence are framed as passive and perpetrator-free: “A man killed a woman” becomes “A woman was killed by a man” becomes “A woman was killed”. “John raped Mary” becomes “Mary was raped by John” becomes “Mary was raped”. 2/9

Even some prevention language, e.g. “Preventing violence before it occurs” is passive, and again perpetrators and perpetration are invisible. Yet violence involves agency: a person uses violence against another person. 3/9

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Dr Michael Flood

@MichaelGLFlood

8 Nov

Feminist activism and scholarship in resisting and responding to gender-based abuse: We owe feminist activists and scholars a debt of gratitude, for identifying men’s violence against women as a social problem and for building community and legal responses to it. 1/5

Feminist advocacy, often by women of colour and/or lesbians, has had a series of successes. It has named a variety of forms of violence against women, and expanded recognition of perpetrators’ tactics (e.g. of coercive control) and means of perpetration (e.g. cyberstalking). 2/5

Feminist activism has had profound impacts on both community and legal system responses. There is still much room for improvement. There is backlash, resistance and victim-blaming among police, court officials such as judges, etc. And feminist debates over law and the state. 3/5

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Dr Michael Flood

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1 Nov

Privilege: Can be defined as “systematically conferred advantages individuals enjoy by virtue of their membership in dominant groups with access to resources and institutional power that are beyond the common advantages of marginalised citizens” xyonline.net/sites/xyonline… 1/6

Three features of privilege. Privilege typically is a) invisible, b) normalised, and c) based on a sense of entitlement among privileged groups. Journal article by Bob Pease and Michael Flood (2006), in full text at xyonline.net/sites/xyonline… 2/6

Privilege: a) Invisible: Members of privileged groups have an ‘unmarked status’. Unlikely to be aware of how others don’t have access to the benefits they receive, and thus unlikely to acknowledge the experiences of those who are marginalised. xyonline.net/sites/xyonline… 3/6

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Dr Michael Flood

@MichaelGLFlood

31 Oct

Boys, pornography, and sexual violence: A multi-country European study finds that young men who use porn regularly are more likely than other young men to perpetrate sexual violence (Stanley et al. 2018). Survey of 4,564 young people aged 14 to 17 in five European countries. 1/4

Boys were far more likely than girls to regularly watch pornography. Among boys, regularly watching pornography was associated with increased probability of being a perpetrator of sexual coercion. 2/4

Asked if they regularly watched online porn, the following proportions agreed: 44% of boys & 8% of girls in Bulgaria, 59% of boys & 3% of girls in Cyprus, 39% of boys & 3% of girls in England, 44% of boys & 5% of girls in Italy, and 48% of boys & 6% of girls in Norway. 3/4

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Dr Michael Flood

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29 Oct

Healthy masculinity? What qualities are part of a positive, healthy, ethical alternative to the forms of patriarchal masculinity that sustain gender inequalities and limit men’s and boys’ own lives? First, some background on masculinity… 1/16

‘Masculinity’ refers to the meanings given to be being male and the social organisation of boys’ and men’s lives and relations. So masculinity is part of identities, behaviours, interaction, peer cultures, media, and the formal and informal workings of institutions. 2/16

This definition of masculinity is open-ended. In any context, some versions of masculinity will be dominant – the most influential, given the most status. And these may be healthy or unhealthy, positive or negative. 3/16

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