Masculinities and violence / edited by Lee H. Bowker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowker, Lee H.

Series:

Research on men and masculinities series ; 10.

Research on men and masculinities series ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Men.

Masculinity.

Violence.

Physical Description:

xviii, 267 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1998]

Summary:

Masculinities and Violence, the latest volume in the Research on Men and Masculinities series, takes a sobering look at men and violence. Editor Lee H. Bowker has carefully chosen essays that shed light on the causes and settings of masculine violence. The three essays in Part I lay out the ways in which men learn violence and repeat it. Part II focuses on the ways men victimize women and children. Part III turns to ways men victimize other men. Finally, Part IV looks at men and organizational violence. Understanding the masculinities-violence nexus is crucially important to finding ways to mitigate the masculine tendency to violence. This perceptive volume will be an important resource for all those interested in the field of gender roles, men??'s studies, and interpersonal violence.

Contents:

Part 1 Learning Violence

1. On the Difficulty of Eradicating Masculine Violence: Multisystem Overdetermination / Lee H. Bowker 1

System Levels of Action 2

Overdetermination in Action 7

Biological System Interactions With Other Action Systems 10

Eradicating Masculine Violence 13

2. Taking Control: Toy Commercials and the Social Construction of Patriarchy / Sarah Sobieraj 15

Theory and Literature 16

The Study 19

Results 21

3. Bureaucratizing Masculinities Among Brazilian Torturers and Murderers / Martha K. Huggins, Mika Haritos-Fatouros 29

"Masculinities" 30

Centuries of Masculinity 31

Locating and Interviewing Torturers and Murderers 32

Masculine Identities and Violence 34

Lone-Wolf Police 35

Institutional Functionaries 43

Bureaucratizing Masculinity 51

Part 2 Men Victimizing Women and Children

4. Doing Violence to Women: Research Synthesis on the Victimization of Women / Neil Websdale, Meda Chesney-Lind 55

Nonlethal Violence Against Women 57

Lethal Violence Against Women 58

Sexual Victimization 62

The Victimization of Prostitutes 66

The Victimization of Imprisoned Women 72

Toward a Diverse and Inclusive Understanding of Doing Violence to Women 79

5. Ladykillers: Similarities and Divergences of Masculinities in Gang Rape and Wife Battery / Chris O'Sullivan 82

Gang Rape and Masculinity; Domestic Violence and Masculinity: Separate Spheres of Research and Intervention 83

Convergence and Divergence Between Gang Rapists and Wife Beaters 89

Essential Differences Between Gang Rape and Wife Beating 93

6. The Coaching Abuse of Teenage Girls: A Betrayal of Innocence and Trust / Lee H. Bowker 111

Methodology 113

Results 114

Controlling Coaching Abuse 122

Part 3 Men Victimizing Men

7. Men Victimizing Men: The Case of Lynching, 1865-1900 / James W. Messerschmidt 125

Structured Action Theory 126

Slavery 132

Reformulating Black Masculinity 137

"Doing" White-Supremacist Masculinity Through Lynching 140

Race, Sexuality, and the Chivalric Phallacy 144

8. Frat Boys, Bossmen, Studs, and Gentlemen: A Typology of Gang Masculinities / John M. Hagedorn 152

Gender and Gang Research 153

Methods 156

A Typology of Gang Masculinities 157

9. Hypermasculinity and Prison Violence / Hans Toch 168

Violence and a Culture of Masculinity 170

Subcultures of Masculinity and Violence 170

The Genesis of the Male Prisoner Culture 171

The Hypermasculine Worldview 173

Violence and the Hypermasculine Life Cycle 174

Addressing Violence in the Prison 176

Part 4 Masculinities and Organizational Violence

10. Dow Corning and the Silicone Breast Implant Debacle: A Case of Corporate Crime Against Women / Constance L. Chapple 179

Setting the Stage for Crime to Occur 179

The History of Medical Device Regulation 181

Dow Corning and the FDA: Decisions and Consequences 182

Complications Regarding Implants: Stories of Pain and Suffering 185

Past Lessons Ignored 187

Hegemonic Masculinity and the Construction of the "Other" 188

Feminism, the State, and Crimes of Omission 190

Explanations of Corporate Wrongdoing 192

Fitting the Pieces Together 195

11. Engendering Violent Men: Oral Histories of Military Masculinity / Tracy Xavia Karner 197

Shifting Social Models of Masculinity 200

Learning to Be Men 202

Military Manhood 210

The Consequences of Maleness 230.

Notes:

"Published in cooperation with the Men's Studies Association, a task group of the National Organization for men against sexism."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-254) and index.

ISBN:

0761904514

0761904522

OCLC:

37721262