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 93
... look big to your mates . You have to prove yourself all the time . And it's different things in different groups . Like everyone can look at a street gang and say , oh yeah , all their behaviour is about being hard . But in the top sets ...
... look big to your mates . You have to prove yourself all the time . And it's different things in different groups . Like everyone can look at a street gang and say , oh yeah , all their behaviour is about being hard . But in the top sets ...
Page 115
... look after other people . Like at home my older sister brought me up and now I'm the one looking after my gran . M.M .: Why do you think that is ? Julie : It's true what that girl said in the discussion . I never thought of it before ...
... look after other people . Like at home my older sister brought me up and now I'm the one looking after my gran . M.M .: Why do you think that is ? Julie : It's true what that girl said in the discussion . I never thought of it before ...
Page 117
... look around here to see it . Large numbers of the boys are leaving school and not finding work , some of them unemployable . Work is the finishing school for our kids , for the boys . It gives them the discipline , helps them to settle ...
... look around here to see it . Large numbers of the boys are leaving school and not finding work , some of them unemployable . Work is the finishing school for our kids , for the boys . It gives them the discipline , helps them to settle ...
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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