Re-masculinising agricultural space: Men's response to women's farm networks

One of the most widely engaged strategies to address women’s marginal position in agricultural organisations has been to establish women-only networks. This paper identifies and describes four discourses by which men in agricultural organisations have sought to discredit these networks. These are th...

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Main Author: Pini, Barbara
Other Authors: T. Majoribanks
Format: Conference Paper
Published: TASA 2008
Online Access:https://www.tasa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Pini-Barbara-172-PDF.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7539
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description One of the most widely engaged strategies to address women’s marginal position in agricultural organisations has been to establish women-only networks. This paper identifies and describes four discourses by which men in agricultural organisations have sought to discredit these networks. These are through trivialising, masculinising pathologising and sexualising them. The paper explains that women leaders in the farm networks have attempted to counter these discourses by drawing on traditional gender discourses which position the women’s groups as existing to support and assist men, their families and their communities.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-75392022-11-21T05:19:39Z Re-masculinising agricultural space: Men's response to women's farm networks Pini, Barbara T. Majoribanks J. Barraket J-S Chang A. Dawson M Guillemin M. Henry-Waring A. Kenyon R. Kokanovic J. Lewis D. Lusher D. Nolan P. Pyett R. Robins D. Warr J Wyn One of the most widely engaged strategies to address women’s marginal position in agricultural organisations has been to establish women-only networks. This paper identifies and describes four discourses by which men in agricultural organisations have sought to discredit these networks. These are through trivialising, masculinising pathologising and sexualising them. The paper explains that women leaders in the farm networks have attempted to counter these discourses by drawing on traditional gender discourses which position the women’s groups as existing to support and assist men, their families and their communities. 2008 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7539 https://www.tasa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Pini-Barbara-172-PDF.pdf TASA restricted
spellingShingle Pini, Barbara
Re-masculinising agricultural space: Men's response to women's farm networks
title Re-masculinising agricultural space: Men's response to women's farm networks
title_full Re-masculinising agricultural space: Men's response to women's farm networks
title_fullStr Re-masculinising agricultural space: Men's response to women's farm networks
title_full_unstemmed Re-masculinising agricultural space: Men's response to women's farm networks
title_short Re-masculinising agricultural space: Men's response to women's farm networks
title_sort re-masculinising agricultural space: men's response to women's farm networks
url https://www.tasa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Pini-Barbara-172-PDF.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7539