Men behind bars: "Doing, masculinity as an adaptation to imprisonment

This article, which is part ofa wider ethnographics tudyo f constructionso fs elfi n the mediatedw orld ofm en'sp risons,e xplores" manliness"a st hep risonc opings trategyp ar excellence That masculinityi s likely to becomem ore extremein men'sp risonsi s unsurprising, but the origins and nature of the "hypermasculine" culture and the precise means by which hierarchies of domination are created and maintained have yet to be thoroughly explored. Indeed, although men constitute the vast majority of prisoners worldwide, mosts tudiest reat the gendero ft heir subjectsa s incidentala nda ssumeth at in men's prisons, the normal rules of patriarchy do not apply. However, as this article demonstratest,h e notiono fp atriarchy, althoughi n needo fr efinement,i s not irrelevantt o the predominantlym alee nvironment,a nd it is now widely acceptedth at menc an be its victims as well as its perpetrators.