Abstract

Background

Gambling studies literature is a space where discourses call objects such as ‘gambling harm reduction’ and ‘women harmed by gambling’ into being and give them status as namable and describable.

Methodology and methods

A poststructural feminist analysis of the positioning of women who gamble in gambling studies literature was carried out to explore possibilities and constraints for gambling harm reduction practices. Gambling studies literature was accessed to enable a range of historically emerging framings of women’s gambling practices and harm to be brought to light. Discourse analysis drew on key concepts (discourse, subjectivity, power/knowledge) and principles (reversal, discontinuity, specificity and exteriority) developed by Michel Foucault.

Findings

Gambling studies have constructed women as: ‘risky gamblers’, ‘vulnerable women’, and as subject to gendered socio-cultural determinants of gambling and harm. Dominant conceptualisations of women in gambling studies tend to bring individual women who gamble into focus, obscuring the social, governmental and commercial determinants of gambling and harm, and often reproducing some unhelpful gender stereotypes in the process.

Conclusions

Holistic, environmental and Indigenous women’s health discourses have the potential to shift gambling harm reduction from a health services approach to one that is focused on supporting community wellbeing. This includes women’s co-production and ownership of harm reduction strategies. It is concluded that opportunities women’s gambling harm reduction may be found in critical psychology, and/or approaches which emphasize coherent and critical gender analysis, collaborative action, community development and client-led practice.

中文翻译：

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赌博研究中的女性：后结构分析

摘要

背景

赌博研究文献是一个空间，在这个空间中，话语将诸如“减少赌博危害”和“受赌博伤害的女性”之类的对象称为存在，并赋予它们可命名和可描述的地位。

方法论和方法

对赌博研究文献中赌博女性的定位进行了后结构女权主义分析，以探索减少赌博危害做法的可能性和限制。赌博研究文献被访问，以揭示一系列历史上出现的女性赌博行为和危害的框架。话语分析借鉴了米歇尔·福柯 (Michel Foucault) 提出的关键概念（话语、主体性、权力/知识）和原则（逆转、不连续性、特殊性和外部性）。

发现

赌博研究将女性构建为：“冒险赌徒”、“弱势女性”，并受到赌博和伤害的性别社会文化决定因素的影响。赌博研究中对女性的主要概念化倾向于将赌博的女性个体作为焦点，掩盖了赌博和伤害的社会、政府和商业决定因素，并在此过程中经常再现一些无益的性别刻板印象。

结论

整体的、环境的和土著妇女的健康话语有可能将减少赌博危害从一种健康服务方法转变为一种专注于支持社区福祉的方法。这包括妇女的联合制作和减少伤害战略的所有权。结论是，可以在批判心理学和/或强调连贯和批判性性别分析、协作行动、社区发展和客户主导的实践的方法中找到减少女性赌博危害的机会。