Bonnycastle, Kevin Denys, 1956-2011.

Stranger rape rapists, masculinity, and penal governance / Kevin Denys Bonnycastle. - Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2012. (Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2013). - 1 online resource (xvii, 327 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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'.



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Electronic Books.

HV6558 / .S773 2012