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Informationen zum Autor Stephen Tomsen is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the School of Social Sciences! University of Western Sydney! Australia. Zusammenfassung Presents contemporary articles that are part of, or related to, the 'new masculinities' approach. This work features scholars who share the view that masculinities are plural, socially constructed, reproduced in the collective social practices of different men and embedded in institutional and occupational settings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Series preface; Introduction; Part I Theoretical Perspectives: Daubing the drudges of fury: men! violence! and the piety of the 'hegemonic masculinity' thesis! Steve Hall; Subordinating hegemonic masculinity! Tony Jefferson; On hegemonic masculinity and violence: response to Jefferson and Hall! R.W. Connell; Making bodies matter: adolescent masculinities! the body and varieties of violence! James W. Messerschmidt; After Dunblane: crime! corporeality and the (hetero-)sexing of the bodies of men! Richard Collier. Part II The Spectrum of Masculine Crime: Culture! masculinities and violence against women! Joachim Kersten; Assault on men: masculinity and male victimization! Elizabeth A. Stanko and Kathy Hobdell; Enacting masculinity: anti-gay violence and group rape as participatory theater! Karen Franklin; Situational construction of masculinity among male street thieves! Heith Copes and Andy Hochstetler; Managing to kill: masculinities and the space shuttle Challenger explosion! James W. Messerschmidt; Criminal careers! desistance and subjectivity: interpreting men's narratives of change! David Gadd and Stephen Farrell. Part III Cultural and Ethnographic Analyses: Masculinity and heroism in the Hollywood 'blockbuster': the culture industry and contemporary images of crime and law! Richard Sparkes; In search of the high life: drugs! crime! masculinities and consumption! Mike Collison; In search of masculinity: violence! respect and sexuality among Puerto Rican crack dealers in East Harlem! Philippe Bourgois; 'Boozers and bouncers': masculine conflict! disengagement and the contemporary governance of drinking-related violence and disorder! Stephen Tomsen; Hard men! shop boys and others: embodying competence in a masculinist occupation! Lee F. Monaghan; 'Ducktails! flick-knives and pugnacity': subcultural and hegemonic masculinities in South Africa! 1948-1960! Katie Mooney. Part IV Criminal Justice Settings: 'There oughtta be a law against bitches': masculinit ...
