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 60
But now , they still say things but we feel safer and most of the time we just ignore
them and don ' t come in contact with them . Tony : Me and Ashwin got the worst ,
picked on every day by the yobs and then the others would start . They ' d be in ...
But now , they still say things but we feel safer and most of the time we just ignore
them and don ' t come in contact with them . Tony : Me and Ashwin got the worst ,
picked on every day by the yobs and then the others would start . They ' d be in ...
Page 73
Graham : Where we work in the supermarket , the boys do all the harder work like
filling shelves and dragging things aroung the warehouse . And you ' re freer
there , away from the boss . And the girls are on the tills talking to the customers ...
Graham : Where we work in the supermarket , the boys do all the harder work like
filling shelves and dragging things aroung the warehouse . And you ' re freer
there , away from the boss . And the girls are on the tills talking to the customers ...
Page 144
The bloke at training scheme in charge of us kept calling us love and things like
that . And you don ' t really know what to do . Like at school , you ' re with all your
mates , so you can take the piss out of the teachers . Michelle : They do things ...
The bloke at training scheme in charge of us kept calling us love and things like
that . And you don ' t really know what to do . Like at school , you ' re with all your
mates , so you can take the piss out of the teachers . Michelle : They do things ...
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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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