Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School

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.

Author: C. J. Pascoe
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 11/01/2011
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.31h x 5.87w x 0.58d
ISBN13: 9780520271487
ISBN10: 0520271483
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Children's Studies
- Family & Relationships | Life Stages | Adolescence
- Social Science | Gender Studies

About the Author
C.J. Pascoe is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon.