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Studies of masculinity have been largely absent from educational research. This book presents a collection of current critical scholarship on the creation of masculinities in schools. Contributors examine experiences in North American, Australian and British schools at all levels from preschool to graduation, and from school settings such as computer labs to the football field. The result is a thoughtful analysis of how masculinities are related to competing definitions of masculinity and femininity. The chapters show how masculinities are constructed among teachers, students and administrators, and locates these analyses within broader social, economic and ideological contexts.
Heterosexism in Middle Schools
Heterosexism in Middle Schools
This chapter addresses the complex ways in which heterosexism underlies adolescents' ideologies of masculinity and femininity—in their self-concepts, in their relationships, and within gender relations in school. We explore girls' and boys' descriptions of their gender identity and the role assumptions about heterosexuality play not only in their conceptions but in the social culture of school. The form of heterosexism we are seeing is misogynistic, where boys exert (exploit?) their masculinity in ways that are antifemale and homophobic and where girls both exploit and downplay their femininity largely to attract attention from boys. It is important to point out that the particular sexual orientation of individual students is not the focus, rather the heterosexist ideology that underpins students' ...
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