Dude, Youre a Fag : Masculinity and Sexuality in High School

English

ISBN: 0520252306

EAN: 9780520252301

Category: Social Science / Sociology / General/Family & Relationships / Life Stages / Adolescence/Social Science / Gender Studies/Education / Students & Student Life/Psychology / General/Psychology / Human Sexuality/Social Science / Men's Studies/

Publisher: University of California Press

Release Date: 09/16/2009

Synopsis: 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, Youre a Fagsheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and as a set of social practices. C. J. Pascoes 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.

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Dude, Youre a Fag : Masculinity and Sexuality in High School

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Format: Paperback

Height: 0.57 inches

Width: 6.1 inches

Length: 8.94 inches

Weight: 11.85 oz

Pages: 227