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So what's a boy? : addressing issues of masculinity and schooling

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posted on 2003-01-01, 00:00 authored by W Martino, Maria Pallotta-ChiarolliMaria Pallotta-Chiarolli
This book focuses on the impact and effects of masculinities on the lives of boys at school. Through interviews with boys from diverse backgrounds, the authors explore the various ways in which boys define and negotiate their masculinities at school. Through looking at the problems and examining the question of what makes a boy a boy, this title offers recommendations and outlines directions for working with boys in schools in the future."

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Pagination

1 - 310

Publisher

Open University Press

Place of publication

Maidenhead, England

ISBN-13

9780335203819

ISBN-10

0335203817

Language

eng

Notes

Part I. Normalization and Schooling: 1. 'So what's a boy?': normalizing practices and borderland existences; 2. 'You have to be strong, big and muscular': boys, bodies and masculinites; 3. 'That's what normal boys do': bullying and harassment in the lives of boys at school; 4. 'Getting into the cool group is like passing an exam': boys talk about friendships at school -- Part II. Diverse Masculinities: 5. 'It was never openly talked about': the experiences of sexually diverse boys at school; 6. 'If you're a wog you're cool, but if you're Asian you get picked on': multiple masculinities and cultural diversity; 7. 'One of the main problems at school would be racism': indigenous boys, masculinities and schooling; 8. 'You're not a real boy if you're disabled': boys negotiating physical disability and masculinity in schools -- Part III. Sites of Intervention: 9. 'There's no opportunity for guys to get down and think about what they're doing and why they are doing it': boys interrogating 'masculinity' in schools; 10. 'It's the politics of my school that upsets me': the rhetoric and realities of school policies, structures and pedagogies; 11. 'I don't like reading ... I like playing sport or being outside': interrogating masculinities in English and physical education; 12. 'So what's a healthy boy?': health education as a site of risk, conformity and resistance.

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