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 57
This was highly visible in relation to the Macho Lads ' experience of the school ' s
social relations of domination , alienation and infantilism that were mediated
through their location in the lowest sets . These social relations were of central ...
This was highly visible in relation to the Macho Lads ' experience of the school ' s
social relations of domination , alienation and infantilism that were mediated
through their location in the lowest sets . These social relations were of central ...
Page 119
Senior management justified the new vocationalist courses for young women
who were in low sets , in terms of their future domestic and occupational value .
The young women contested the naturalization of their domestic apprenticeship
and ...
Senior management justified the new vocationalist courses for young women
who were in low sets , in terms of their future domestic and occupational value .
The young women contested the naturalization of their domestic apprenticeship
and ...
Page 125
The female students in the top sets were highly critical of male teachers '
patronization , in systematically highlighting gender differences in relation to
academic achievement . They argued that teachers , in attempting to motivate
male students ...
The female students in the top sets were highly critical of male teachers '
patronization , in systematically highlighting gender differences in relation to
academic achievement . They argued that teachers , in attempting to motivate
male students ...
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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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