ISBN:
9780520271487
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (248 p.)
Edition:
2nd ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Dude, You're a Fag : Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, With a New Preface
DDC:
306.76
Keywords:
Teenage boys -- California -- Social conditions
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High school students -- California -- Social conditions
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Masculinity
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Heterosexuality
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Gender identity
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Identity (Psychology) in adolescence
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Socialization
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Gender identity
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Heterosexuality
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High school students ; California ; Social conditions
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Identity (Psychology) in adolescence
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Masculinity
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Socialization
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Teenage boys ; California ; Social conditions
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, Dude, You're a Fag sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and as a set of social practices. C. J. Pascoe's unorthodox approach analyzes masculinity as not only a gendered process but also a sexual one. She demonstrates how the "specter of the fag" becomes a disciplinary mechanism for regulating heterosexual as well as homosexual boys and how the "fag discours
Description / Table of Contents:
COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE TO THE 2012 EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Chapter One Making Masculinity Adolescence, Identity, and High School; REVENGE OF THE NERDS; WHAT DO WE MEAN BY MASCULINITY?; BRINGING IN SEXUALITY; RETHINKING MASCULINITY,SEXUALITY, AND BODIES; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK; 2 . Becoming Mr. Cougar: Institutionalizing Heterosexuality and Masculinity at River High; RIVER HIGH'S GENDERAND SEXUALITY CURRICULUM; PEDAGOGY: THE UNOFFICIAL GENDERAND SEXUALITY CURRICULUM; SCHOOL RITUALS: PERFORMINGAND POLICING GENDER AND SEXUALITY; GENDER AND SEXUALITY REGIMES
Description / Table of Contents:
3. Dude, You're a Fag: Adolescent Male HomophobiaWHAT IS A FAG? GENDERED MEANINGS; BECOMING A FAG: FAG FLUIDITY; EMBODYING THE FAG: RICKY'S STORY; RACIALIZING THE FAG; WHERE THE FAG DISAPPEARS: DRAMA PERFORMANCES; REFRAMING HOMOPHOBIA; 4. Compulsive Heterosexuality: Masculinity and Dominance; A STUD WITH THE LADIES; GETTING GIRLS; TOUCHING; SEX TALK; GIRLS RESPOND; I'M DIFFERENT FROM OTHER GUYS; FEMALES ARE THE PUPPETS; 5. Look at My Masculinity! Girls Who Act Like Boys; TOMBOY PASTS; REBECA AND THE BASKETBALL GIRLS; THE HOMECOMING QUEEN: JESSIE CHAU; THE GAY/STRAIGHT ALLIANCE GIRLS
Description / Table of Contents:
EMBODYING MASCULINITY6. Conclusion: Thinking about Schooling, Gender,and Sexuality; MASCULINITY AT RIVER HIGH; THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS; PRACTICAL STEPS; Appendix WHAT IF A GUY HITS ON YOU? Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Age in Fieldwork with Adolescents; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX;
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