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 49
... male teachers confronted macho male students in their attempt to maintain social control . In this process , the male teachers acted out their responses within an arena , where they took for granted the legitimacy of dominant authority ...
... male teachers confronted macho male students in their attempt to maintain social control . In this process , the male teachers acted out their responses within an arena , where they took for granted the legitimacy of dominant authority ...
Page 123
... male teachers ' disciplinary inconsistencies , which frequently and arbitrarily shifted between demands that as young women they should be more mature and complaints that they were ' growing up too fast ' . They also spoke of the ...
... male teachers ' disciplinary inconsistencies , which frequently and arbitrarily shifted between demands that as young women they should be more mature and complaints that they were ' growing up too fast ' . They also spoke of the ...
Page 136
... male teachers ' moralistic warnings about ' getting a bad reputation ' operated within a decontextualized situation that did not acknowledge the rampant male heterosexuality that pervasively circumscribed much of their lives . This ...
... male teachers ' moralistic warnings about ' getting a bad reputation ' operated within a decontextualized situation that did not acknowledge the rampant male heterosexuality that pervasively circumscribed much of their lives . This ...
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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