ENGLISH

Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, With a New Preface

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9780520950696
DOI
10.1525/9780520950696
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1389453 bytes)
Pages
248\247
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 18:30:31

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.

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