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Trying to be Something You Are Not: Masculine Performances within a Prison Setting (2012)
Journal Article
de Viggiani, N. (2012). Trying to be Something You Are Not: Masculine Performances within a Prison Setting. Men and Masculinities, 15(3), 271-291. https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X12448464

Prisons are social communities where people commonly conform to normative institutional and cultural values and ideologies. Conforming as a man in prison may involve performing or projecting prison masculinities to ensure emotional, psychological, an... Read More about Trying to be Something You Are Not: Masculine Performances within a Prison Setting.