Masculinities, Violence and Culture (SAGE Series on Violence against Women)
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: May 11, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780761905004
Subjects: Crime & criminology; Cultural studies; Gender studies; Psychology; Violence in Society; Violence; Men's Studies - Masculinity; Family Violence; Sociology Of Men; Women; Social Science; Sociology; Sociology - Marriage & Family; Abuse - General; Psychology & Psychiatry / Interpersonal Relations; Men's Studies - General; Crimes against; Masculinity; Men
First sentence: Witness this: A 16-year-old male student, unable to tolerate rejection by a girlfriend or bullying by his peers, arms himself and goes to school.
Description: "This book offers a postmodern analysis linking the contemporary social crisis of masculine subjectivity with the law-and-order crisis over escalating violence. In doing so, it examines the major biological, psychological, sociological, and anthropological theoretical models of masculinity and violence, and it formulates an integrated theoretical approach to the relationship between violence and masculinity.

In essence, the book focuses on violence as a gendered activity - specifically, a masculine activity."--BOOK JACKET.