Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, With a New PrefaceHigh 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. |
Contents
Adolescence Identity and High School | 1 |
Institutionalizing Heterosexuality and Masculinity at River High | 25 |
Adolescent Male Homophobia | 52 |
Masculinity and Dominance | 84 |
Girls Who Act Like Boys | 115 |
Thinking about Schooling Gender and Sexuality | 156 |
WHAT IF A GUY HITS ON YOU? Intersections of Gender Sexuality and Age in Fieldwork with Adolescents | 175 |
NOTES | 195 |
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