Dude, You're a Fag Masculinity and Sexuality in High School

Name: Dude, You're a Fag Masculinity and Sexuality in High School
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ISBN: 9780520252301

ISBN-10: 0520252306

ISBN-13: 9780520252301

Edition: 2007

Authors: C. J. Pascoe

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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 plumbs the dynamics of masculinity among high school boys and 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 as a sexual one. In immersing herself in the day-to-day life of her chosen school, she finds homophobia not only rampant throughout, but also tolerated by a faculty and administration who allow sexually…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/4/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

C.J. Pascoeis Postdoctoral Scholar with the Digital Youth Project at the Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley.



Acknowledgments



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


Organization of the Book



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



What If a Guy Hits on You? Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Age in Fieldwork with Adolescents


Notes


References


Index