Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School

C. J. Pascoe

Published by University of California Press 2007

Dude, You’re a Fag

Masculinity and Sexuality in High School

C. J. Pascoe

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520941045

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High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, Dude, You're a Fag sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and as a set of social practices. C. J. Pascoe's unorthodox approach analyzes masculinity as not only a gendered process but also a sexual one. She demonstrates how the "specter of the fag" becomes a disciplinary mechanism for regulating heterosexual as well as homosexual boys and how the "fag discourse" is as much tied to gender as it is to sexuality.

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Pascoe C. J. :

C.J. Pascoe is Postdoctoral Scholar with the Digital Youth Project at the Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. Making Masculinity: Adolescence, Identity, and High School Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Becoming Mr. Cougar: Institutionalizing Heterosexuality and Masculinity at River High Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
3. Dude, You’re a Fag: Adolescent Male Homophobia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
4. Compulsive Heterosexuality: Masculinity and Dominance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
5. Look at My Masculinity! Girls Who Act Like Boys Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
6. Conclusion: Thinking about Schooling, Gender, and Sexuality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Appendix: What If a Guy Hits on You? Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Age in Fieldwork with Adolescents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 240

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Published: June 22, 2020
ISBN: 9780520941045