Men, Masculinities, and Murder-Suicide

Men, Masculinities, and Murder-Suicide

Murder-suicide (M-S) is a complex phenomenon that can involve a multifaceted set of interrelated biological and social factors. M-S is also sexed and gendered in that the perpetrators are most often male and their underpinning motives and actions link to masculinities in an array of diverse ways. With the overarching goal to describe connections between men, masculinities, and M-S, 296 newspape...

Gender, Men, and Masculinities

Gender involves men as well as women. Attempts to understand gender have sometimes used the idea of sex roles; and sometimes have treated men and women as simple categories. But the most fruitful approach is to see gender as a system of social relations. Masculinities are the patterns of social practice associated with the position of men in any society’s set of gender relations. Bodily differe...

Murder-Suicide in Australia

Homicide is a relatively infrequent event in Australia, and homicides followed by the suicide of the perpetrator occur about twenty times each year. Analyses of these cases, however, can be instructive. This Trends and Issues paper shows that most murder-suicides in Australia occur in the context of intimate and/or family relationships, and are more likely to involve firearms than are other cat...

[Strangulation: murder or suicide?].

Poetry therapy, men and masculinities.

Therapists have long utilized poetry with various at risk male populations. Yet, in spite of its use, therapists have also been aware of the dilemmas associated with using poetry in a population whose behavior and identity may at times run counter to the core tenants of poetry therapy. However, the literature of poetry therapy does not fully explore what therapists need to know about men and ma...