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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... things like looking small , I was tiny then , and both of us wore glasses , things like that . M.M .: So those things would be picked up then ? Tony : Some kids got much worse . There was a kid who had a limp and they persecuted him for ...
... things like looking small , I was tiny then , and both of us wore glasses , things like that . M.M .: So those things would be picked up then ? Tony : Some kids got much worse . There was a kid who had a limp and they persecuted him for ...
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... things aroung the warehouse . And you're freer there , away from the boss . And the girls are on the tills talking to the customers and that . Like you would prefer to talk to a girl in a shop wouldn't you ? William : Working in a sweet ...
... things aroung the warehouse . And you're freer there , away from the boss . And the girls are on the tills talking to the customers and that . Like you would prefer to talk to a girl in a shop wouldn't you ? William : Working in a sweet ...
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... things go too far . These girls can be very manipulative . M.M .: Do you think it's always on the student's side ? Mr Turner : Oh yes . They might even say things about the men here . You have to be very careful these days . Watch ...
... things go too far . These girls can be very manipulative . M.M .: Do you think it's always on the student's side ? Mr Turner : Oh yes . They might even say things about the men here . You have to be very careful these days . Watch ...
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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