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 81
Robert : The kids , the boys who were there thought it was typical of them that
they would make a big deal of knowing gays and all that . But they ' d go mad if
we got close to one . Like my dad wondered about David [ brother ) being gay .
Robert : The kids , the boys who were there thought it was typical of them that
they would make a big deal of knowing gays and all that . But they ' d go mad if
we got close to one . Like my dad wondered about David [ brother ) being gay .
Page 85
But they won ' t say anything when Asians and black kids are racist to each other .
Adam : And how come they keep on saying that racialism is really bad but we ' ve
had a load of hassle from black and Asian kids . The ones in the lowest sets ...
But they won ' t say anything when Asians and black kids are racist to each other .
Adam : And how come they keep on saying that racialism is really bad but we ' ve
had a load of hassle from black and Asian kids . The ones in the lowest sets ...
Page 86
Like here with black culture , the kids ' language , cussing and that , their cool
movement , the hairstyles , the music and the clothes , you see the Asians and
the white kids really getting into it , deeply into it , right . But at the same time
some of ...
Like here with black culture , the kids ' language , cussing and that , their cool
movement , the hairstyles , the music and the clothes , you see the Asians and
the white kids really getting into it , deeply into it , right . But at the same time
some of ...
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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 |
| ISBN | 0335157823, 9780335157822 |
| Length | 209 pages |
| Subjects | › Education / General |
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