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Sex, Violence and Crime
Foucault and the ‘Man’ Question
What happens when you sex violent crimes? More specifically, what hap-
pens when you make men’s violence against women the subject of a conver-
sation or the focus of scholarly attention? The short answer is: all hell breaks
loose. Adrian Howe explores some of the ways in which this persistent and
pervasive form of violence has been named and unnamed as a significant
social problem in Western countries over the past four decades. Addressing
what she calls the ‘Man’ question – so named because it pays attention to the
discursive place occupied, or more usually vacated, by men in accounts of
their violence against women – she explores what happens when that vio-
lence is placed on the criminological and political agenda.
Written in a theoretically-informed yet accessible style, Sex, Violence and
Crime – Foucault and the ‘Man’ Question provides a novel and highly ori-
ginal approach to questions of sex and violence in contemporary Western
society. Directed at criminologists, students and, more widely, at anyone
interested in these issues, it challenges readers e to grips with post-
modern feminist reconceptualisations of the fraught relationship between
sex, violence and crime in order to bat men’s violence against
women and children.
Adrian Howe teaches social policy at RMIT University, Melbourne,
Australia.
Sex, Violence and Crime
Foucault and the ‘Man’ Question
Adrian Howe
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