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 136
This political decontextualization , which served to make invisible sexual power
relations from which male teachers benefited , provided a masculine logic in
which young women were blamed for the sexual harassment that was directed ...
This political decontextualization , which served to make invisible sexual power
relations from which male teachers benefited , provided a masculine logic in
which young women were blamed for the sexual harassment that was directed ...
Page 155
A major danger of making the young men the focus of this study is that it may
serve unintendedly to reinforce the dominant ' commonsense ' view of equating
discussion of sexuality with gays as social problems or victims . For example ,
when I ...
A major danger of making the young men the focus of this study is that it may
serve unintendedly to reinforce the dominant ' commonsense ' view of equating
discussion of sexuality with gays as social problems or victims . For example ,
when I ...
Page 160
They ' ve created faggots in order to act out a sexual fantasy on the body of
another man and not take any responsibility for it . Do you see what I mean ? I
think it ' s very important for the male homosexual to recognize that he is a sexual
target ...
They ' ve created faggots in order to act out a sexual fantasy on the body of
another man and not take any responsibility for it . Do you see what I mean ? I
think it ' s very important for the male homosexual to recognize that he is a sexual
target ...
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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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