ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the Crowley arrest of Gates through the lens of masculinities studies in order to demonstrate the necessity for a broader conception of masculinities, one that acknowledges the ways they are cross-cut by race, class, and other identities. The Hegemonic Masculinities approach to masculinities studies is the dominant strand in law (Cohen 2009, Cooper 2009b, Dowd 2010, Harris 2000, McGinley 2008). It analyses the impact of masculinities by describing how men were influenced by and/or sought to deviate from the hegemonic, or dominant, ideal of masculinity (Cooper 2009b). This chapter departs slightly from the Hegemonic Masculinities approach to masculinities studies and instead proposes a Multidimensional Masculinities approach. Multidimensionality theory is a concept from critical race theory of law. It says that masculinities (1) are always intertwined with all other categories of identity and also (2) create different effects in different contexts (Cooper 2010). Merging a Hegemonic Masculinities approach and multidimensionality theory creates a Multidimensional Masculinities approach.
