Masculinities and Violence
Edited by:
- Lee H. Bowker - Humboldt State University, USA
February 1998 | 288 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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.
PART ONE: LEARNING VIOLENCE
Lee H Bowker
On the Difficulty of Eradicating Masculine Violence
Multisystem Overdetermination
Sarah Sobieraj
Taking Control
Toy Commercials and the Social Construction of Patriarchy
Martha K Huggins and Mika Haritos-Fatouros
Bureaucratizing Masculinities among Brazilian Torturers and Murderers
PART TWO: MEN VICTIMIZING WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Neil Websdale and Meda Chesney-Lind
Doing Violence to Women
Chris O'Sullivan
Ladykillers
Similarities and Divergences of Masculinities in Gang Rape and Wife Battery
Lee H Bowker
The Coaching Abuse of Teenage Girls
A Betrayal of Innocence and Trust
PART THREE: MEN VICTIMIZING MEN
James Messerschmidt
Men Victimizing Men
The Case of Lynching, 1865-1900
John Hagedorn
Frat Boys, Bossmen, Studs and Gentlemen
Hans Toch
Hypermasculinity and Prison Violence
PART FOUR: MASCULINITIES AND ORGANIZATIONAL VIOLENCE
Constance Chapple
Dow Corning and the Silicone Breast Implant Debacle
An Investigation into Corporate Crime against Women
Tracy Karner
Engendering Violent Men
Oral Histories of Military Masculinity