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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... never talked again . You see if you were really open , well you just couldn't trust another bloke that the next day that he wouldn't tell everyone and then that would be the end of you . Tony : You can't talk to men intelligently , only ...
... never talked again . You see if you were really open , well you just couldn't trust another bloke that the next day that he wouldn't tell everyone and then that would be the end of you . Tony : You can't talk to men intelligently , only ...
Page 100
... never remember my mum or dad ever kissing me as a child . Maybe on exceptional occasions . They never tucked me in at night . There was none of those close feelings expressed with me not like my sister . And then I think that you can go ...
... never remember my mum or dad ever kissing me as a child . Maybe on exceptional occasions . They never tucked me in at night . There was none of those close feelings expressed with me not like my sister . And then I think that you can go ...
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... never behave like that . M.M .: So , what do you do ? Nicola : You might have arguments about it , if you're going ... never meet any boys , you'd never get a boyfriend . You see the girls at the grammar [ a single - sex school ] . They ...
... never behave like that . M.M .: So , what do you do ? Nicola : You might have arguments about it , if you're going ... never meet any boys , you'd never get a boyfriend . You see the girls at the grammar [ a single - sex school ] . They ...
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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