Dude, You're a Fag : Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, With a New Preface
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| Title: | Dude, You're a Fag : Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, With a New Preface |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | C. J. Pascoe |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Heterosexuality, Gender identity, High school students--California--Social conditions, Masculinity, Identity (Psychology) in adolescence, Socialization, Teenage boys--California--Social conditions |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| 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 discourse'is as much tied to gender as it is to sexuality. |
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| ISBN: | 9780520271487 9780520950696 |
