Masculinities and the Adult Male Prison Experience
Jennifer Anne Sloan
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Description for Masculinities and the Adult Male Prison Experience
Hardcover. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ2; JKVQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
This book critically analyses how men in prison act out their masculine identities. It considers how men negotiate their time in prison, which can involve being placed into a feminine position relative to other men, and particularly looks at the subversion of heteronormative gender positionings through bodies, spaces, time, and relationships. Vulnerability is also taken as a key consideration, and men are shown to act out their masculinities for the benefit of an audience that matters to them. However, that audience is shown to be subject to change at any point in time.
Using extensive ethnographic data drawn from adult ... Read more
This book critically analyses how men in prison act out their masculine identities. It considers how men negotiate their time in prison, which can involve being placed into a feminine position relative to other men, and particularly looks at the subversion of heteronormative gender positionings through bodies, spaces, time, and relationships. Vulnerability is also taken as a key consideration, and men are shown to act out their masculinities for the benefit of an audience that matters to them. However, that audience is shown to be subject to change at any point in time.
Using extensive ethnographic data drawn from adult ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
197
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137399144
SKU
V9781137399144
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Ref
99-15
About Jennifer Anne Sloan
Jennifer Sloan is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She researches in the areas of prisons, gender, sexual violence and justice, and is co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Ethnography.
Reviews for Masculinities and the Adult Male Prison Experience
“Jennifer Anne Sloan explores the diverse dimensions of incarcerated masculinity. The author aptly highlights the difficulties involved in such a study, and devotes numerous developments to the reflexive aspect of this. … From a temporal perspective, she also notes that prison forces men into a more circular … time, and as such, more ‘feminine’ … and that their loss of ... Read more