Dude, You’re a Fag
Title | Dude, You’re a Fag PDF eBook |
Author | C. J. Pascoe |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2007-06-04 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0520252306 |
Eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school this is an exploration of the dynamics of masculinity among boys.
Dude, You're a Fag
Title | Dude, You're a Fag PDF eBook |
Author | C. J. Pascoe |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0520271483 |
Draws on eighteen months of research in a racially diverse working-class high school to explore the meaning of masculinity and the social practices associated with it, discussing how homophobia is used to enforce gender conformity.
Dude, You’re a Fag
Title | Dude, You’re a Fag PDF eBook |
Author | C. J. Pascoe |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2007-06-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520941047 |
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.
Girls in Power
Title | Girls in Power PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Fingerson |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0791480976 |
Girls in Power offers a fascinating and unique look at the social aspects of menstruation in the lives of adolescent girls—and also in the lives of adolescent boys. Although there has been much research on other aspects of gender and the body, this is one of the few books to examine menstruation and the first to explore how it plays a part in power interactions between boys and girls. Talking openly in single- and mixed-gender settings, individuals and groups of high school–age girls and boys share their interpretations and experiences of menstruation. Author Laura Fingerson reveals that while teens have negative feelings about menstruation, teen girls use their experiences of menstruation as a source of embodied power in their interactions with other girls and with boys. She also explores how boys deal with their own reduced power. The book extends our theoretical and analytical understanding of youth, gender, power, and embodiment by providing a more balanced view of adolescent social life.
The Sex Myth
Title | The Sex Myth PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Hills |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2015-08-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1451685807 |
From a bold new feminist voice, a book that will change the way you think about your sex life. Fifty years after the sexual revolution, we are told that we live in a time of unprecedented sexual freedom; that if anything, we are too free now. But beneath the veneer of glossy hedonism, millennial journalist Rachel Hills argues that we are controlled by a new brand of sexual convention: one which influences all of us—woman or man, straight or gay, liberal or conservative. At the root of this silent code lies the Sex Myth—the defining significance we invest in sexuality that once meant we were dirty if we did have sex, and now means we are defective if we don’t do it enough. Equal parts social commentary, pop culture, and powerful personal anecdotes from people across the English-speaking world, The Sex Myth exposes the invisible norms and unspoken assumptions that shape the way we think about sex today.
OCD, The Dude, and Me
Title | OCD, The Dude, and Me PDF eBook |
Author | Lauren Roedy Vaughn |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 2013-03-21 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1101592214 |
With frizzy orange hair, a plus-sized body, sarcastic demeanor, and "unique learning profile," Danielle Levine doesn't fit in even at her alternative high school. While navigating her doomed social life, she writes scathing, self-aware, and sometimes downright raunchy essays for English class. As a result of her unfiltered writing style, she is forced to see the school psychologist and enroll in a "social skills" class. But when she meets Daniel, another social misfit who is obsessed with the cult classic film The Big Lebowski, Danielle's resolve to keep everyone at arm's length starts to crumble.
Not Under My Roof
Title | Not Under My Roof PDF eBook |
Author | Amy T. Schalet |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2011-09-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0226736202 |
Winner of the Healthy Teen Network’s Carol Mendez Cassell Award for Excellence in Sexuality Education and the American Sociological Association's Children and Youth Section's 2012 Distinguished Scholarly Research Award For American parents, teenage sex is something to be feared and forbidden: most would never consider allowing their children to have sex at home, and sex is a frequent source of family conflict. In the Netherlands, where teenage pregnancies are far less frequent than in the United States, parents aim above all for family cohesiveness, often permitting young couples to sleep together and providing them with contraceptives. Drawing on extensive interviews with parents and teens, Not Under My Roof offers an unprecedented, intimate account of the different ways that girls and boys in both countries negotiate love, lust, and growing up. Tracing the roots of the parents’ divergent attitudes, Amy T. Schalet reveals how they grow out of their respective conceptions of the self, relationships, gender, autonomy, and authority. She provides a probing analysis of the way family culture shapes not just sex but also alcohol consumption and parent-teen relationships. Avoiding caricatures of permissive Europeans and puritanical Americans, Schalet shows that the Dutch require self-control from teens and parents, while Americans guide their children toward autonomous adulthood at the expense of the family bond.