The Animal Inside
Men and Violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2227971 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Gutmann, Matthew C Gutmann (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | S23 |
| Pages | S182-S192 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/711706 |
| OpenAlex | W3117370801 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 25 |
In societies around the world people seek scientific confirmation of widespread preconceptions about men and aggression, and we find ourselves riding a perpetual motion hamster wheel of misinformation and cant. Not infrequently, certain populations of men-poor men, African men, Mexican men, Wall Street men, rural men, urban men-are tagged as especially prone to violence, because they are purportedly less able and less intent on controlling their supposed primordial male urges to act out hostilities. Using examples including mass murders in the United States, World War I in Europe, the gender binary at the Vatican, and male suicidality around the world, we examine popular beliefs about men and violence in a range of cross-cultural contexts that are couched in terms of nature and animality (and sometimes hormones, Y chromosomes, and evolution) to analyze more closely the components of gender-based violence and to question the everyday language used to describe presumed inherent qualities of maleness shared by humans and other animals
Aggression · Criminology · Everyday life · Misinformation · Political science · Race (biology · Sociology · World War II · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Psychology · Race, Genetics, and Society · Social Psychology · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |