Dude, you're a fag : masculinity and sexuality in high school / C.J. Pascoe.
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TextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2012.Edition: 2012 edDescription: xx, 227 pages ; 23 cmISBN: - 9780520271487
- 0520271483
- Masculinity and sexuality in high school
- 306.76 PAS
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| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 306.76 PAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100630129 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 discourse" is as much tied to gender as it is to sexuality.
Previous edition: 2007.
With a new preface.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Becoming Mr. Cougar: institutionalizing heterosexuality and masculinity at River High : River High's gender and sexuality curriculum ; Pedagogy: the unofficial gender and sexuality curriculum ; School rituals: performing and policing gender and sexuality ; Gender and sexuality regimes -- Dude, you're a fag: adolescent male homophobia : What 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 -- 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 -- 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 ; Embodying masculinity -- 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.