2.9 Gender and crime key terms

• Malestream


  A term involving a play on words (mainstream) coined by feminist sociologists to draw attention to the way in which sociology had marginalised and ignored women's lives.
• Hegemonic

  Culturally domiant
• Accommodating masculinity


  One that does not challenge the power differential between teachers and pupils
• Bodily capital

  Aspects of people's bodies that can be used to generate an income
• Contingent 


  Dependent on something else, accidental or arbitrary