Learning the Hard Way Masculinity, Place, and the Gender Gap in Education

Name: Learning the Hard Way Masculinity, Place, and the Gender Gap in Education
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ISBN: 9780813553696

ISBN-10: 0813553695

ISBN-13: 9780813553696

Edition: 2012

Authors: Edward W. Morris

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An avalanche of recent newspapers, weekly newsmagazines, scholarly journals, and academic books has helped to spark a heated debate by publishing warnings of a “boy crisis” in which male students at all academic levels have begun falling behind their female peers. InLearning the Hard Way, Edward W. Morris explores and analyzes detailed ethnographic data on this purported gender gap between boys and girls in educational achievement at two low-income high schools—one rural and predominantly white, the other urban and mostly African American. Crucial questions arose from his study of gender at these two schools. Why did boys tend to show less interest in and more defiance toward school? Why…

Book details

List price: $40.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 9/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction



Respect and Respectability



The Hidden Injuries of Gender



Too Cool for School: Masculinity and the Contradictions of Achievement



Rednecks and Rutters: Rural Masculinity and Class Anxiety



Clownin' and Riffin': Urban Masculinity and the Complexity of Race



'Girls Just Care about It More': Femininity and Achievement As Resistance



Friday Night Fights



Conclusion


Appendix. Research Methods: Process and Representation


Notes


References


Index