So What's a Boy?McGraw-Hill Education (UK), 16. apr. 2003 - 328 sider “This book bears the hallmark of Open University Press texts. It is well laid out and nicely produced. It manages a good balance between textbook and cutting edge research… The book is impressive in its command of a wide range of writings on sexuality, gender, masculinity and schooling.” - Educational Review "Secondary school teachers, principals and school counsellors would be the primary audience for this book, although youth workers and other workers with adolescent males should also find the boys' perceptions of school and adolescent culture of great interest and considerable use." -Youth Studies Australia 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. The following questions and issues are addressed:
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Side xi
... example, we interviewed a few young men in their early twenties who reflected upon their schooling experiences in ways that they had been unable to while at school for fear of reprisal from teachers and peers. A snowball method was also ...
... example, we interviewed a few young men in their early twenties who reflected upon their schooling experiences in ways that they had been unable to while at school for fear of reprisal from teachers and peers. A snowball method was also ...
Side 5
... example, Foucault claims: 'What I wanted to know was how the subject constituted himself, in such and such a determined form, as a mad subject or as a normal subject, through a certain number of practices which were games of truth ...
... example, Foucault claims: 'What I wanted to know was how the subject constituted himself, in such and such a determined form, as a mad subject or as a normal subject, through a certain number of practices which were games of truth ...
Side 11
... example, some nonAnglo groups of boys assimilate Anglo norms in the ways they construct a hierarchy from the most dominant/superior to the most powerless/inferior ethnicity. Similarly, boys from a lower socio-economic group may not ...
... example, some nonAnglo groups of boys assimilate Anglo norms in the ways they construct a hierarchy from the most dominant/superior to the most powerless/inferior ethnicity. Similarly, boys from a lower socio-economic group may not ...
Side 12
... example, there are both inter- and intra-hierarchical social relations impacting on boys in dominant and marginal locations. We argue, therefore, that it is important for educational work to focus on equipping all boys with capacities ...
... example, there are both inter- and intra-hierarchical social relations impacting on boys in dominant and marginal locations. We argue, therefore, that it is important for educational work to focus on equipping all boys with capacities ...
Side 16
... example, one boy, Brett recounted an incident during recess when his friends initiated talk about penis size. He indicated that this event was significant because, although the boys talked and joked a lot about sex, they had not ...
... example, one boy, Brett recounted an incident during recess when his friends initiated talk about penis size. He indicated that this event was significant because, although the boys talked and joked a lot about sex, they had not ...
Indhold
Part 2 Diverse Masculinities | 73 |
Part 3 Sites of Intervention | 181 |
Conclusion | 284 |
References | 288 |
Index | 307 |
Back cover | 311 |
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Side 5 - What is at issue, briefly, is the over-all "discursive fact," the way in which sex is "put into discourse." Hence, too, my main concern will be to locate the forms of power, the channels it takes, and the discourses it permeates in order to reach the most tenuous and individual modes of behavior, the paths that give it access to the rare or scarcely perceivable forms of desire, how it penetrates and controls everyday pleasure...
Side 12 - beyond' is neither a new horizon, nor a leaving behind of the past. . . . Beginnings and endings may be the sustaining myths of the middle years; but in the fin de siecle, we find ourselves in the moment of transit where space and time cross to produce complex figures of difference and identity, past and present, inside and outside, inclusion and exclusion.
Side 7 - ... it is largely as a force of production that the body is invested with relations of power and domination; but, on the other hand, its constitution as labour power is possible only if it is caught up in a system of subjection...
Side 147 - There is a naive belief that Aboriginal people will make 'better' representations of us, simply because being Aboriginal gives 'greater' understanding. This belief is based on an ancient and universal feature of racism: the assumption of the undifferentiated Other. More specifically, the assumption is that all Aborigines are alike and equally understand each other, without regard to cultural variation, history, gender, sexual preference and so on.
Side 6 - ... (with its own concepts, theories, diverse disciplines), a collection of rules (which differentiate the permissible from the forbidden, natural from monstrous, normal from pathological, what is decent from what is not, etc), a mode of relation between the individual and himself [or herself; BO] (which enables him [or her; BO] to recognise himself [or herself; BO] as a sexual subject amid others).
Side 147 - better" representations of us, simply because being Aboriginal gives "greater" understanding. This belief is based on an ancient and universal feature of racism: the assumption of the undifferentiated other. More specifically, the assumption is that all Aborigines are alike and equally understand each other, without regard to cultural variation, history, gender, sexual preference and so on. It is a demand for censorship: there is a "right" way to be Aboriginal, and any Aboriginal film or video producer...
Side 289 - Beck, U. (1992), Risk Society, Sage, San Francisco. Beresford, Q. and Omaji, P. (1996), Rites of Passage, Aboriginal youth, crime and justice, Fremantle Press, Perth. Boden, D. (1994), The Business of Talk, Cambridge, Polity Press. Boswell, J.
Side 133 - Memmi points to several conclusions drawn about this artificially created Other. First, the Other is always seen as "Not," as a lack, a void, as lacking in the valued qualities of the society, whatever those qualities may be. Second, the humanity of the Other becomes "opaque.
Side 5 - ... What I refused was precisely that you first of all set up a theory of the subject — as could be done in phenomenology...