New Perspectives on Prison Masculinities

Matthew Maycock is a Learning and Development Researcher at the Scottish Prison Service.  He was previously Investigator Scientist at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSU), University of Glasgow, Scotland.Kate Hunt is Associate Director at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSU), and also Professor of Gender and Health, University of Glasgow, Scotland. She leads a programme of research funded by the UK Medical Research Council and Scotland’s Chief Scientist Office on ‘Understanding and Improving Health within Settings and Organisations’.

• Chapter 1. Introduction, New Perspectives on Prison Masculinities; Matthew W Maycock.- Chapter 2. Work, Intimacy and Prisoner Masculinities; Martha Morey and Ben Crewe.- Chapter 3. Being Inside: Masculine Imaginaries, Prison Interiors; Rod Earle.- Chapter 4. They’re All up in the Gym and all That, Tops off, Fake Tan. Embodied Masculinities, Bodywork and Resistance within Two British Prisons; Matthew W Maycock.- Chapter 5. Don’t Mess with Me! Enacting Masculinities under a Compulsory Prison Regime; Nick Di Viggiani.- Chapter 6. Saying the Unsayable: Foregrounding Men in the Prison System; Jennifer Sloan.- Chapter 7. Hear Our Voices: We’re More Than the Hyper Masculine Label: Reasonings of Black Men Participating in a Faith Based Prison Programme; Geraldine Brown and Paul Grant.- Chapter 8. A Framework Model of Black Masculinities and Desistance; Martin Glynn.-  Chapter 9. Sporting Masculinities in Prison; Rosie Meek and Hannah Baumer.- Chapter 10. Inhabiting the Australian Prison: Masculinities, Violence and Identity Work; Kate Seymore.- Chapter 11. Exploring Masculinity Construction, Subject Positioning and the Relationship with Dad; Tony Evans.- Chapter 12. Inside the Prison Parenting Classroom: Caring, Sharing and the Softer Side of Masculinity; Katie Buston.- Chapter 13. Paternity and the Paradigms of Possibility: Comparing Two Fatherhood Programs in American Prisons; Anna Curtis.

“This is a thought-provoking, empirically rich book that makes an important contribution towards describing and bringing attention to the impacts and dilemmas of incarcerated men and the enactment of prisoners’ masculinities. … many of the contributors make interesting use of diverse literatures, disciplines and theories, ensuring the book is an important resource for scholars and those interested in the lives and well being of prisoners.” (Paul L Simpson, Current Issues in Criminal Justice , Vol. 30 (01), July, 2018)