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Compensating at Scale: America’s Insecure Masculinity and the Police

05.12.23

In this article, Rick Miles offers a gender and masculinity based explanation for the expansion of policing and police militarization in American public life as an example of compensatory masculinity.

Of Mascara and Men

01.19.18

BY NAMRATA RAJU Chile, 2006: Jim wiped the blood from his eyes and gingerly picked his body off the ground. He had been idling down an empty street when, suddenly, several young men pounced on him and beat him to a pulp. “Why do you walk funny, you pansy?” they bellowed, between punches. India, 2010: […]

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