The Making of Men: Masculinities, Sexualities and SchoolingMairtin Mac an Ghaill explores how boys learn to be men in schools while policing their own and others' sexuality. The text focuses on the students' confusions and contradictions in their gendered experiences; and upon how schools actively produce, through the official and hidden curriculum, a range of masculinities which young men come to inhabit. The author attempts to do full justice to the complex phenomenon of male heterosexual subjectivities and to the role of schooling in forming sexual identities. |
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Page 90
She argues that in a male - dominated society femininity is ascribed ; in contrast ,
masculinity and manhood have to be ' achieved in a permanent process of
struggle and confirmation ' . She adds that it is not surprising : that it is boys who
are ...
She argues that in a male - dominated society femininity is ascribed ; in contrast ,
masculinity and manhood have to be ' achieved in a permanent process of
struggle and confirmation ' . She adds that it is not surprising : that it is boys who
are ...
Page 111
These feminist texts have posited that femininity is a constitutive element in the
cultural production of school ... Just as masculine and feminine are
complementary parts of a single gender system , so girls ' and boys ' subcultures
are in reality ...
These feminist texts have posited that femininity is a constitutive element in the
cultural production of school ... Just as masculine and feminine are
complementary parts of a single gender system , so girls ' and boys ' subcultures
are in reality ...
Page 149
Some use femininity itself ( make - up , stylish or outlandish clothes ) as a form of
resistance to school and class authority . . . There is an alternative strategy
available to girls however that rejects glamour altogether . It is an active
resistance ...
Some use femininity itself ( make - up , stylish or outlandish clothes ) as a form of
resistance to school and class authority . . . There is an alternative strategy
available to girls however that rejects glamour altogether . It is an active
resistance ...
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Contents
Teacher ideologies representations and practices | 15 |
Local student cultures of masculinity and sexuality | 51 |
Learning to become a heterosexual man at school | 89 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Making of Men: Masculinities, Sexualities and Schooling |
| Authors | Mairtin Mac an Ghaill, An Gha Mac |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Open University Press, 1994 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Nov 2008 |
| ISBN | 0335157823, 9780335157822 |
| Length | 209 pages |
| Subjects | › Education / General |
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