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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In his view beings make sense of their behaviour and that of others through
discourses : socially produced forms of knowledge which define and organize
experience and which always embody power . There are theoretical advantages
in ...
In his view beings make sense of their behaviour and that of others through
discourses : socially produced forms of knowledge which define and organize
experience and which always embody power . There are theoretical advantages
in ...
Page 54
Writing of the different kinds of relationship that students have with school and
how these relationships are produced , they warn that : No relationship with
school exists in isolation , each is conditioned by the presence of others . Second
, we ...
Writing of the different kinds of relationship that students have with school and
how these relationships are produced , they warn that : No relationship with
school exists in isolation , each is conditioned by the presence of others . Second
, we ...
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... selecting work places that blurred the boundaries between work and leisure ,
in which they could socialize with friends while working . A group of these
students were involved with a local community feminist group which produced
videos of ...
... selecting work places that blurred the boundaries between work and leisure ,
in which they could socialize with friends while working . A group of these
students were involved with a local community feminist group which produced
videos 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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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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