Dude, you're a fag : masculinity and sexuality in high school / C.J. Pascoe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pascoe, C. J., 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage boys--California--Social conditions.

Teenage boys.

High school students--California--Social conditions.

High school students.

Masculinity.

Heterosexuality.

Gender identity.

Identity (Psychology) in adolescence.

Socialization.

Social conditions.

California.

Physical Description:

xii, 227 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Making masculinity : adolescence, identity, and high school

Becoming Mr. Cougar : institutionalizing gender and sexuality at River High

Dude, you're a fag : male adolescent homophobia

Compulsive heterosexuality : masculinity and dominance

Look at my masculinity! : girls who act like boys

Conclusion: Thinking about schooling, gender, and sexuality

Appendix : What if a guy hits on you? : intersections of gender, sexuality, and age in fieldwork with adolescents.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index.

ISBN:

9780520248625

0520248627

9780520252301

0520252306

OCLC:

70707771

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