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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Joanne : But all your talk is crap . It ' s just to prove you ' re better than your mates
. Why don ' t you all get together and measure your little plonkers . One aspect of
the research in this area was to examine how the male students learned the ...
Joanne : But all your talk is crap . It ' s just to prove you ' re better than your mates
. Why don ' t you all get together and measure your little plonkers . One aspect of
the research in this area was to examine how the male students learned the ...
Page 95
You can ' t talk normal . Like if you see an attractive girl , you can ' t say , look she '
s attractive , he would feel embarrassed . Like if a handicapped person was there
, you wouldn ' t talk about having a game of football because that would make ...
You can ' t talk normal . Like if you see an attractive girl , you can ' t say , look she '
s attractive , he would feel embarrassed . Like if a handicapped person was there
, you wouldn ' t talk about having a game of football because that would make ...
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Like when Patrick ' s father died , none of us could really talk to him . I had one
talk when he was ... You are talking to men seriously for a while , then they see a
girl and say to each other , I ' d give her eight out of ten . Frank : I don ' t think girls
...
Like when Patrick ' s father died , none of us could really talk to him . I had one
talk when he was ... You are talking to men seriously for a while , then they see a
girl and say to each other , I ' d give her eight out of ten . Frank : I don ' t think girls
...
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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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| 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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