Abstract
LGBT populations in Australia are a marginalized group who experience discrimination and peripheralization in everyday life (Leonard et al., 2012). It is important to note, however, that marginality is not experienced evenly across the disparate lives encompassed by the LGBT acronym. Moreover, intersections of age, dis/ability, race and class also modulate marginality and vulnerability, including within disaster contexts (D'Ooge, 2008; Pincha and Krishna, 2008). Our interest in this chapter lies in understanding how masculinities may operate in and through LGBT experiences of disaster. Rather than arguing that hegemonic masculinity results in uniform forms of vulnerability for LGBT populations, we suggest that a more nuanced understanding reveals both differing impacts of vulnerability, as well as ways in which hegemonic masculinity may in fact be resisted or deployed as a means of resilience.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Men, Masculinities and Disaster |
Editors | Elaine Enarson, Bob Pease |
Place of Publication | U.K. |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 128-139 |
Number of pages | 12 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781315678122 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781138934177 |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- Australia
- masculinity
- natural disasters
- sexual minorities