Masculinities and violence / edited by Lee H. Bowker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowker, Lee H., editor.

Series:

Research on men and masculinities series.

Research on Men and Masculinities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Men.

Masculinity.

Violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE, c1998.

Thousand Oaks, California : Sage Publications, Inc., 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Understanding the masculinities-violence nexus is crucially important to finding ways to mitigate the masculine tendency towards violence. Taking a sobering look at men and violence, Lee H Bowker has carefully chosen essays which shed light on the causes and settings of masculine violence. The three essays in Part One lay out the ways in which men learn violence and repeat it. Part Two focuses on the ways men victimize women and children. Part Three turns to the ways men victimize other men, and the final part examines men and organizational violence.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I - Learning Violence; Chapter 1 - On the Difficulty of Eradicating Masculine Violence: Multisystem Overdetermination; Chapter 2 - Taking Control: Toy Commercials and the Social Construction of Patriarchy; Chapter 3 - Bureaucratizing Masculinities among Brazilian Torturers and Murderers; Part II - Men Victimizing Women and Children; Chapter 4 - Doing Violence to Women: Research Synthesis on the Victimization of Women; Chapter 5 - Ladykillers: Similarities and Divergences of Masculinities in Gang Rape and Wife Battery

Chapter 6 - The Coaching Abuse of Teenage Girls: A Betrayal of Innocence and TrustPart III - Men Victimizing Men; Chapter 7 - Men Victimizing Men: The Case of Lynching, 1865-1900; Chapter 8 - Frat Boys, Bossmen, Studs, and Gentlemen: A Typology of Gang Masculinities; Chapter 9 - Hypermasculinity and Prison Violence; Part IV - Masculinities and Organizational Violence; Chapter 10 - Dow Corning and the Silicone Breast Implant Debacle: A Case of Corporate Crime Against Women; Chapter 11 - Engendering Violent Men: Oral Histories of Military Masculinity; References; Index; About the Contributors

Notes:

"Published In cooperatio n with the Men's Studies Association, A Task Group of the National Organization for Men Against Sexism."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781452249599

1452249598

OCLC:

605519943