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Author Bonnycastle, Kevin Denys, 1956-2011.

Title Stranger rape : rapists, masculinity, and penal governance / Kevin Denys Bonnycastle.

Publication Info. Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [2012]
Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2013.
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 327 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. The Subject of Stranger Rape and Stranger-Rapists -- 2. The Sex Offender: Every Man, Other Men and Monsters -- 3. Of Mountain Goats and Rabbits: The Penal Context and the Company of Sex Offenders -- 4. Beautiful Baby Boys: Gendering Relationships -- 5. Good Human Beings Doing Horrible Things: Stanger-Rape as a Gendering Practice -- 6. Men's Power and Men's Pain: Gendering and Gendering Violence -- 7. Breaking Out: Challenging Hegemonic Manhood in Prison -- Epilogue -- Appendix.
Summary The book's major achievement is to recognize rapists and rape in their particularity and complexity in the hope that critical thinking about their lives and about their experiences in penal contexts and programs may eventually lead to what one respondent called his 'road to redemption'.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Rapists -- Canada -- Psychology -- Case studies.
Rapists.
Canada.
Psychology.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Murderers -- Canada -- Psychology -- Case studies.
Murderers.
Male prisoners -- Canada -- Psychology -- Case studies.
Male prisoners.
Masculinity -- Canada -- Case studies.
Masculinity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: 9781442613461 9781442645363
ISBN 9781442662438 (electronic book)
1442662433 (electronic book)
9781442613461 (paperback)
9781442645363 (bound)
1442645369 (bound)
1442613467 (paperback)