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Overview
This book explores the relationship between masculinity and violence within the context of cultural change and escalating violence.
This unique analysis links the growing sociological and psychological literature on masculinity with contemporary criminological research. The author focuses on:
- A critical examination of the major biological, psychological, sociological, and anthropological models of masculinity and violence
- Formulating an integrated theoretical approach to the relationship between violence and masculinity
- Violence as a gendered activity
- Representations of violence and masculinity in popular culture including cartoons, fiction, television and film.
Masculine identity is not viewed as rigid, but as flexible and changeable. This position enables the author to take a completely fresh look at relations between power, privilege, and gender.
Presents postmodern analysis of masculinity; reviews psycho- logical, sociological, biological & anthropological theories
Synopsis
Offers a postmodern analysis linking the contemporary social crisis of masculine subjectivity with the law-and-order crisis over escalating violence. With a focus upon violence as a masculine activity, Hatty (culture, epistemology and medicine, Ohio U.) examines and integrates the major biological, psychological, sociological, and anthropological theoretical models of masculinity and violence. Drawing from diverse literatures and traditions, she defines and theorizes both violence and masculinity, and addresses the popular culture's construction of masculinity and the range of images of violence that dominate our senses. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR