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Holding Your Square - Masculinities, streetlife and violence (Hardcover, New)
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Holding Your Square - Masculinities, streetlife and violence (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography
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This book is about the meanings of masculinities within the social
networks of the streets of an American city (St Louis, Missouri),
and how these shaped perceptions and enactments of violence. Based
on a large number of interviews with offenders the author provides
a rich description of life on the streets, contextualizing criminal
violence within this deviant subculture, and with a specific focus
on issues of gender. The book provides one of the most detailed
descriptions yet of the forms masculinity takes in disadvantages
communities in the United States. It establishes how street based
gender identity motivated and guided men through violent
encounters, exploring how men's relationships with women and their
families instigated violence. One key issue addressed is why men
resorted to violence in certain situations and not in others,
exploring the range of choices open to them and how these
opportunities were interpreted. The book makes a major contribution
to the study of the relationship between masculinities and
violence, making use of a much larger sample than elsewhere.
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