Masculinities and Violence

Book Overview

Understanding the masculinities-violence nexus is crucially important to finding ways to mitigate the masculine tendency towards violence. Taking a sobering look at men and violence, Lee H Bowker has carefully chosen essays which shed light on the causes and settings of masculine violence. The three essays in Part One lay out the ways in which men learn violence and repeat it. Part Two focuses on the ways men victimize women and children. Part...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761904522
• ISBN13: 9780761904526
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.4"