The Politics of Men's Health: Contested Masculinities and Strategies of Change (original) (raw)

In recent years the media in Australia has discovered men. Particularly, in the past five years or so, ‘men’s issues’ have become popular topics for television, newspapers and the ‘lifestyle magazine’. One of the key concerns of this new focus on men has been men’s health. Men’s health is presented in television specials, it is the stuff of tabloid articles, an emerging focus of community health services and government policy development, university courses and very recently, the ‘lifestyle magazine’, with the release of the Murdoch corporation’s Men’s Health in September 1997.