Summary

Jimmy Espinoza used to be one of the most notorious pimps in San Francisco, but he now leads an anti-domestic violence program inside the same jail where he was once incarcerated. Before telling Jimmy's story in more detail, Snyder writes about Hamish Sinclair, a man who became involved in social justice in the 1970s and soon became aware of gender inequality, toxic masculinity, and gender-based violence. He believes that men are socialized to define their gender identity through their superiority to other men and to women. In his words: "much of the violence in our communities is due to men’s ongoing enforcement of this learned belief in their superiority" (113). In the 1980s, Sinclair created an intervention program for violent men called ManAlive which includes education on gender theory and what we now call toxic masculinity to address...