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“When the Hell Are You Going to Grow Up?”: a Life-Course Account of Hybrid Masculinities Among Incarcerated Men
Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology ( IF 2.222 ) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 , DOI: 10.1007/s40865-020-00137-5
Janani Umamaheswar

Purpose Recent life-course scholarship has argued that desistance from (rather than persistence in) crime is a marker of adulthood. In this article, I argue that a commitment to desistance is only one of many elements of the participants’ sense of adult masculinity, which is best understood by drawing on theoretical literature on “hybrid masculinities.” By linking life-course criminological literature with recent theoretical advancements in the sociology of gender, I connect two important, but as yet independent, strands of research. Methods Using the grounded theory approach to qualitative research, I performed inductive analyses of 24 in-depth interviews with adult men incarcerated at a state-run facility in the Northeastern USA. Results I argue that the participants construct hybrid masculinities that combine conventionally masculine traits (such as being a provider and protector) with conventionally feminine traits (such as loyalty, humility, and emotional expressiveness). These hybrid masculinities manifest through the participants’ reliance on intangible markers of adulthood, and they emerge gradually over the men’s life course. I further argue that the disruptions that incarceration poses to the men’s life course impede their ability to realize their hybrid masculinities fully. Conclusion The current research contributes to the burgeoning literature that attempts to correct the oversimplified portrayal of incarcerated men as singularly hypermasculine, and it also highlights how incarceration disrupts men’s life course, making it difficult for them to be the “hybrid” men that they wish to be.

中文翻译:

“你什么时候会长到地狱?”:囚犯中混合男性气质的人生历程

目的最近的一门生命历程奖学金认为,远离(而不是持久地)犯罪是成年的标志。在本文中,我认为,对戒断的承诺只是参与者对成人男性气质感的许多要素之一,而这可以通过参考有关“混合男性气质”的理论文献来最好地理解。通过将一生中的犯罪学文献与性别社会学的最新理论进展联系起来,我将两个重要但仍独立的研究联系起来。方法我使用扎实的理论方法进行定性研究,对美国东北部一家国营机构关押的成年男子进行了24次深度访谈,进行了归纳分析。结果我认为,参与者构建了混合的男性气质,将传统的男性特征(例如提供者和保护者)与传统的女性特征(例如忠诚度,谦卑和情感表达)结合在一起。这些混合的男子气概通过参与者对成年无形标志的依赖而体现出来​​,并且在男性的整个生活过程中逐渐显现出来。我进一步指出,监禁对男性生活过程造成的干扰阻碍了他们充分实现混合男性气质的能力。结论当前的研究为新兴文学做出了贡献,这些文学试图纠正过分简单化的对被监禁男性的刻画,如单数男性化,并且还强调了监禁如何影响男性的生活,
更新日期:2020-03-01
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