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Masculinities and the Adult Male Prison Experience / by Jennifer Anne Sloan.
Springer Nature - Springer Law and Criminology eBooks 2016 English International Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sloan, Jennifer Anne., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Corrections.
- Punishment.
- Juvenile delinquents.
- Crime--Sociological aspects.
- Crime.
- Sex.
- Human body--Social aspects.
- Human body.
- Prison and Punishment.
- Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice.
- Crime and Society.
- Gender Studies.
- Sociology of the Body.
- Local Subjects:
- Prison and Punishment.
- Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice.
- Crime and Society.
- Gender Studies.
- Sociology of the Body.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XII, 197 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2016.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Summary:
- This book critically analyses how men in prison act out their masculine identities. It considers how men negotiate their entry into prison, which can involve being placed into a feminine position relative to other men, and particularly looks at the subversion of heteronormative gender positionings through bodies, spaces, time, and relationships. Vulnerability is also taken as a key consideration, as men are shown to act out their masculinities for the benefit of an audience that matters to them. However, that audience is shown to be subject to change at any point in time. Using extensive ethnographic data drawn from adult male prisoners, the book adopts the viewpoint of the individual prisoner as a frame to consider masculinity. It also advances ethnographic research in criminology by reflecting upon the identity of researchers in prisons, particularly the female researcher's gendered identity in such environments. It will be of great interest to scholars of penology, gender and ethnography.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Doing Research in Prisons
- Chapter 3. Corporeal Masculinities
- Chapter 4. Temporal Masculinities
- Chapter 5. Spatial Masculinities. Chapter 6. Relational Masculinities
- Chapter 7. Vulnerable Masculinities
- Chapter 8. Gender in Prison.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137399151
- 1137399155
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