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

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0520248627, 9780520248625, 0520252306, 9780520252301
Open Library ID
OL22752597M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
981 kB (1004185 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
241\241
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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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