Focus Flashcards
1
Q
Key themes are:
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The significance of masculinity
The problem of gender within criminology
2
Q
Masculinity/men = more social power/value in comparison to…
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Women/femininity
3
Q
Some men have power over other men, known as a
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Hierarchy of masculinities
4
Q
Use police as a case study:
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Reiner 1992
‘The cult of masculinities’
5
Q
Hegemonic = subject
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Position
6
Q
Hegemonic vs.
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Complicit
Subordinated
Marginalised
7
Q
Hegemonic constructed in relation to other masculinities as well as women. Conceptualises masculinities as POWER RELATIONS, NOT a set of…
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Personality characteristics men can ‘possess’ or ‘own’
8
Q
BUT
Multiple…
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Masculinities
9
Q
BUT Race, class and sexuality are
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Important
10
Q
BUT
Masculinities are unstable both…
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Culturally and historically
11
Q
‘To what extent is criminal behaviour a means of…
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‘accomplishing masculinity’?’
