Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence - The Struggle for Recognition

Informationen zum Autor James W. Messerschmidt is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Sociology, who previously taught for 35 years in the Criminology Department at the University of Southern Maine, USA. In addition to over eighty research articles and book chapters, he has authored fifteen books, most recently, Hegemonic Masculinity: Formulation, Reformulation, and Amplification and Gender Reckonings: New Social Theory and Research co-edited with Patricia Yancey Martin, Michael Messner, and Raewyn Connell. His research interests focus on cognitive sociology; inequalities; the mutual constitution of identities; gender, masculinities, and sexualities; criminology, youth crime, and violence; and political sociology. Klappentext Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence explores why some boys and girls engage in assaultive or sexual violence while others do not. Acclaimed criminologist James W. Messerschmidt shares six compelling life histories of boys and girls to address the relationship among gender, heterosexuality, violence, and non-violence. Zusammenfassung Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence explores why some boys and girls engage in assaultive or sexual violence while others do not. Acclaimed criminologist James W. Messerschmidt shares six compelling life histories of boys and girls to address the relationship among gender, heterosexuality, violence, and non-violence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Theory and Method Chapter 3: Assaultive Violence Chapter 4: Sexual Violence Chapter 5: Nonviolence Chapter 6: Conclusion Notes References Index

Product details

• Authors: James W. Messerschmidt, Messerschmidt James W.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 18 to 22
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2012
• EAN: 9781442213708
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-1370-8
• No. of pages: 218
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Aid & relief programmes, Social impact of disasters, Gender studies, gender groups, Violence in society, Violence and abuse in society, Aid and relief programmes, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)