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 45
Much work remains to be done on the specific dynamics of these processes at
the local level of the school . ... The second method of regulation involves the
process of inclusion and deligitimation of certain forms of sexuality alongside ...
Much work remains to be done on the specific dynamics of these processes at
the local level of the school . ... The second method of regulation involves the
process of inclusion and deligitimation of certain forms of sexuality alongside ...
Page 90
More particularly , I sought to explore how they were operationalized as key
defining processes in sexual boundary maintenance , policing and legitimization
of male heterosexual identities . In order to understand how students attempted to
...
More particularly , I sought to explore how they were operationalized as key
defining processes in sexual boundary maintenance , policing and legitimization
of male heterosexual identities . In order to understand how students attempted to
...
Page 99
Wood ( 1984 : 83 – 4 ) points to the insecurity men experience in the process of
acknowledging their ' more feminine side ' ... As Mark explains below , this
dichotomization of sex and emotions involved accentuated processes of
gendered and ...
Wood ( 1984 : 83 – 4 ) points to the insecurity men experience in the process of
acknowledging their ' more feminine side ' ... As Mark explains below , this
dichotomization of sex and emotions involved accentuated processes of
gendered and ...
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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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Bibliographic information
| 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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