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Flesh and Blood - Adolescent Gender Diversity and Violence (Hardcover, New)
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Flesh and Blood - Adolescent Gender Diversity and Violence (Hardcover, New)
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Sociologists and criminologists have long known that there is a
relationship between masculinity and crime. Indeed, gender has been
advanced consistently as the strongest predictor of criminal
involvement. Flesh and Blood provides a fascinating account of the
connection among adolescent gender diversity, the body, and
assaultive violence. The book is divided into four parts. In Part
I, the author explores the history of criminology as a discipline,
paying particular attention to the misgivings about the body,
gender, and crime. Messerschmidt shows that criminology
historically has maintained, in various ways, the mind-body,
sex-gender, and gender difference binaries. In Part II,
Messerschmidt presents a theoretical framework-structured action
theory-for overcoming these binaries. This perspective allows
conceptualization of: embodiment as a lived aspect of gender, both
gender differences and gender similarities in the commission of
crime, how embodied social action is embedded in specific
structural gender relations in particular settings, and how
embodied social actions may be related to violence and nonviolence.
The methodology for the study is also presented in Part II, which
seeks to understand, through life-history interviews, certain boys'
and girls' use of assaultive violence as a gendered practice. Part
III presents in depth life histories of four white working-class
boys and girls involved in assaultive violence. The two chief
questions addressed in these life stories are: Why is it that some
boys and some girls engage in assaultive violence and how are these
violent boys and girls similar and different? How are gender
relations in specific settings-such as the family, the school, and
the street-related to motivation for embodied violence and
nonviolence by the same boys and girls? Part IV puts structured
action theory to work by analyzing the three major sites (home,
school, and street) of the boys' and girls' life histories and how
these are related to assaultive violence and nonviolence.
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