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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Don Sabo , Terry Kupers , Willie LondonPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S. Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.776kg ISBN: 9781566398152ISBN 10: 1566398150 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 22 January 2001 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of Contents"Contents Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction Gender and the Politics of Pubishment Don Sabo, Terry A. Kupers, and Willie London Part II: Historical Roots and Contemporary Trends Penitence for the Priviledged: Manhood, Race, and Penitentiaries in Early America Mark E. Kann Race, Gender, and Prison History: From the Convict Lease System to the Supermax Prison Angela Y. Davis Crime, Politics, and Community Since the 1990s Marc Mauer The Elements of Crime Anthony Thomas A World Without Softness Willie London Slave Ship Steve Fraley Part III: The Social Construction of Prison Masculinities Doing Time, Doing Masculinity: Sports and Prison Don Sabo Masculinities, Crime, and Prison James W. Messerschmidt Grappling With Issues of Privilege: A Male Prison Worker's Perspective David Denborough The Culture of Transgression: Initiations Into the Homosociality of a Midwestern State Prison Carl Bryan Homberg Male Prisoners: Privacy, Suffering, and the Legal Construction of Masculinity Nancy Levit Boyz II Men Horace Bell Devil's Den Horace Bell My Mother Death Willie London Prison Friendships Derrick Corley Part IV: Sexualities, Sexual Violence, and Intimacy in Prison Rape and the Prison Code Terry A. Kupers A Million Jockers, Punks, and Queens Stephan ""Donny"" Donaldson The Story of a Black Punk Anonymous The Wall of Silence: Prison Rape and Feminist Politics Susanne V. Paczensky A Moment O'Neil Stough Caged and Celibate Mumia Abu-Jamal The Phone Michael Keck Be Not So Quick to Judge Alice Reflections Carlos Hornsby Skin Blind Dan Pens Once More I Dream Stephan Wayne Anderson Part V: Men's Health in Prison Preventative Health Strategies for Men in Prison Will H. Courtenay and Don Sabo Sentence -- Death By Lethal Infection: IV-Drug Use and Infectious Disease Transmission in North American Prisons Carol Polych and Don Sabo Deliberate Indifference O'Neil Stough Mental Health in Men's Prisons Terry A. Kupers Night Crier Rudy Chato Paul Sr. Part VII: Prison Reform, Reforming Prison Masculinities Scars Jarvis Masters Boys are Not Men: Notes on Working With Adolescent Males in Juvenile Detention Jackson Katz Support Groups for Men in Prison: The Fellowship of the King of Hearts Harris Breiman and T. Pete Bonner The Anti-Exploits of Men Against Sexism, 1977-78 Daniel Burton-Rose Men Helping Men: Facilitating Therapy Groups For Sex Offenders Charles J. Sabatino Litigation, Advocacy, and Self-Respect Donald Specter and Terry A. Kupers Rehabilitating Prison Labor: The Uses of Imprisoned Masculinity Christian Parenti Reentry: Prospects for Postrelease Success Lige Dailey Jr. For Further Reading About the Contributors Index"ReviewsA remarkable book, which confirms our worst fears about the ongoing failure of the U.S. prison system. And yet if offers real hope, real ideas for change. Every legislator in America should be locked in Solitary and forced to read Prison Masculinities. --Tom Fontana, creator of Oz The enforced sequestration of men and women results in hard time, and invites adaptive responses that can often be unseemly, ugly, and destructive. This book shows how male prisons have becme stages for the display and posturing of caricatured masculinity, including the victimization of vulnerable fellow-prisoners. The contribution is impotant, timely, and challenging. --Hans Toch, Distinguished Professor, School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, SUNY, and author of Mosaic of Despair and Corrections: A Humanistic Approach ...an intricate puzzle piece to anyone wishing to comprehend the byproducts of American culture and the criminal justice system. --BLU This sobering collection of essays, scientific findings, poems and heart-breaking testimonials paints a picture of a prison system held hostage by troubled masculinity. --Empire: Gay Man's Guide to Life Prison Masculinities provides an insightful look at the way that masculinity circulates in prisons and on the street. ...a long overdue examination of the hypermasculinity adopted within prisons in response to the fact that prisons are intended, among other things, to emasculate inmates. ... This book is a call to arms to not only re-examine the oppressive structures of prison, but to look at prisons as a microcosm of a society that has perverted the definition of manhood, so that it has come to oppress not only women, but men as well. --Fortune News A remarkable book, which confirms our worst fears about the ongoing failure of the U.S. prison system. And yet if offers real hope, real ideas for change. Every legislator in America should be locked in Solitary and forced to read Prison Masculinities. --Tom Fontana, creator of Oz The enforced sequestration of men and women results in hard time, and invites adaptive responses that can often be unseemly, ugly, and destructive. This book shows how male prisons have becme stages for the display and posturing of caricatured masculinity, including the victimization of vulnerable fellow-prisoners. The contribution is impotant, timely, and challenging. --Hans Toch, Distinguished Professor, School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, SUNY, and author of Mosaic of Despair and Corrections: A Humanistic Approach ...an intricate puzzle piece to anyone wishing to comprehend the byproducts of American culture and the criminal justice system. --BLU This sobering collection of essays, scientific findings, poems and heart-breaking testimonials paints a picture of a prison system held hostage by troubled masculinity. --Empire: Gay Man's Guide to Life Prison Masculinities provides an insightful look at the way that masculinity circulates in prisons and on the street. ...a long overdue examination of the hypermasculinity adopted within prisons in response to the fact that prisons are intended, among other things, to emasculate inmates. ... This book is a call to arms to not only re-examine the oppressive structures of prison, but to look at prisons as a microcosm of a society that has perverted the definition of manhood, so that it has come to oppress not only women, but men as well. --Fortune News Author InformationDon Sabo, Professor of Social Sciences at D'Youville College in Buffalo, is author or editor of five books, most recently, with David Gordon, Men's Health and Illness: Gender, Power, and the Body and, with Michael Messner, Sex, Violence, and Power in Sports: Rethinking Masculinity. Sabo has appeared on The Today Show, Oprah, and Donahue. Terry A. Kupers, M.D., a psychiatrist, teaches at the Wright Institute in Berkeley. He is the author of four books, editor of a fifth. His latest books are Prison Madness: The Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars and What We Must Do About It and Revisioning Men's Lives: Gender, Intimacy, and Power. Kupers has served as an expert witness in more than a dozen cases on conditions of confinement and mental health services. Willie London, a published poet, is General Editor of the prison publication Elite Expressions. He is currently an inmate at Eastern Corrections. For nine years he was a prisoner at Attica. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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