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Negotiating masculine hegemony : female physical educators in an all-boys’ school

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posted on 2012-11-01, 00:00 authored by Amanda MooneyAmanda Mooney, Chris HickeyChris Hickey
School physical education (PE) and sport are commonly regarded as sites where dominant or hegemonic masculinities cultivate, often at the expense of individuals who embody different gendered identities. In all-boys' PE settings, curriculum content frequently orientates around competitive and traditionally masculine team sports wherein teaching pedagogies draw heavily on ‘masculine’ practices that serve to legitimate and/or reproduce hierarchical and heteronormative masculinities. Embedded in the broader tenets of gender equity, this article draws on Foucault's technologies of the self to examine the experiences of two female physical educators in an all-boys' school as they negotiate their daily work in an environment where embodied masculinities are intensified. In doing so, it looks beyond the PE department to the wider school context (discourse and practice) as integral to the contestation and struggles for the professional identities available and taken up by female PE teachers in all-boy settings. Our findings reveal strategies that these teachers employed to negotiate and reconcile the tensions associated with being ‘positioned’ outside the gendered hegemony of the school.

History

Journal

Asia-Pacific journal of health, sport and physical education

Volume

3

Issue

3

Pagination

199 - 212

Publisher

Routledge

Location

Hindmarsh, S.A.

ISSN

1837-7122

eISSN

1837-7130

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2012, Taylor & Francis

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