Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School Author: C. J. Pascoe | Language: English | ISBN:
B005UFN64C | Format: PDF
Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School 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.
- File Size: 430 KB
- Print Length: 249 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0520271483
- Publisher: University of California Press; 2 edition (November 1, 2011)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B005UFN64C
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Those who are giving one or two stars and saying "who cares?" are the same idiots who pooh-pooh any research that doesn't directly apply to their own lives or don't understand the purpose and process of qualitative research. This is a great in-depth analysis of gender and sexuality in a high school. No, it doesn't apply to EVERY high school or ALL teenagers; qual. work isn't SUPPOSED to. It is an analysis of one school and one researcher's experiences there, and she gives a fascinating and very readable account. If you are interested in ethnography and the process of this particular type of methodology, this is a great resource.
By sophie23
Pascoe's ethnography is first rate. The insights her work reveals are eye-opening. We are much informed by the work. It is also a disturbing read.
Pasco worked in a high school thousands of miles from my university on the east coast of the United States, but my students (in an upper level class) almost universally confirmed that the patterns of interaction that she found in the school she studied existed in their own. I found this depressing because in 2012, when I last used the book in class, I would have hoped that young people and the high schools were not reinforcing such negative gender patterns in the youngster's interactions.
Where my East coast university students of 2012 vary from her earlier West coast high school students is in their attitude toward lesbians and gays. Those gender patterns have changed, for much the better in my opinion. But, sadly, the female / male interactions still show widespread acceptance of male dominance and control of the girls. That, my students said, is where their Eastern U.S. schools mirrored those of the West.
By anita
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