Dude, You're a Fag

by Pascoe, C. J.

• ISBN13: 9780520252301
• ISBN10: 0520252306
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-04
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

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 Fagsheds 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.

Author Biography

C.J. Pascoe is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Puget Sound

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Making Masculinity: Adolescence, Identity, and High School	p. 1
Revenge of the Nerds	p. 1
What Do We Mean by Masculinity?	p. 6
Bringing in Sexuality	p. 9
Rethinking Masculinity, Sexuality, and Bodies	p. 13
Methodology	p. 15
Organization of the Book	p. 22
Becoming Mr. Cougar: Institutionalizing Heterosexuality and Masculinity at River High	p. 25
River High's Gender and Sexuality Curriculum	p. 28
Pedagogy: The Unofficial Gender and Sexuality Curriculum	p. 31
School Rituals: Performing and Policing Gender and Sexuality	p. 39
Gender and Sexuality Regimes	p. 50
Dude, You're a Fag: Adolescent Male Homophobia	p. 52
What Is a Fag? Gendered Meanings	p. 55
Becoming a Fag: Fag Fluidity	p. 59
Embodying the Fag: Ricky's Story	p. 65
Racializing the Fag	p. 71
Where the Fag Disappears: Drama Performances	p. 78
Reframing Homophobia	p. 81
Compulsive Heterosexuality: Masculinity and Dominance	p. 84
A Stud with the Ladies	p. 87
Getting Girls	p. 92
Touching	p. 96
Sex Talk	p. 101
Girls Respond	p. 104
I'm Different from Other Guys	p. 107
Females Are the Puppets	p. 113
Look at My Masculinity! Girls Who Act Like Boys	p. 115
Tomboy Pasts	p. 117
Rebeca and the Basketball Girls	p. 120
The Homecoming Queen: Jessie Chau	p. 133
The Gay/Straight Alliance Girls	p. 140
Embodying Masculinity	p. 151
Conclusion: Thinking about Schooling, Gender, and Sexuality	p. 156
Masculinity at River High	p. 157
Theoretical Implications	p. 163
Practical Steps	p. 167
What If a Guy Hits on You? Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Age in Fieldwork with Adolescents	p. 175
Notes	p. 195
References	p. 201
Index	p. 215
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