Masculinities and Other Hopeless Causes at an All-Boys Catholic School (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781433115370)

We get our fixed - or malleable - notions of sexuality and gender from a variety of sources: family expectations, a hypersexualizing media gaze, and through the dictates of those great monoliths, Faith and Obedience within a/the Church. However, gender is also being formed in the well-worn halls and the ordered environment of classrooms: schools are the great throughways where gender gets most articulated - bartered for and with - during adolescence.
This book documents a year-long autoethnographic study in an all-boys Catholic secondary school. It elucidates how schooling helps form both assumptions and practices about what it means to become a man, and examines how these discourses are reshaped by young men in their daily lives. In the process the book explicates how students come to make sense of and exercise their own identities amidst the discourses of the school around, through, and by religion and gender and, necessarily, sexuality.

Author: William F. Pinar,Kevin J. Burke
ISBN-10: 1433115379
ISBN-13: 9781433115370
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 10/26/2011
Pages: 171
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.90w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 12/01/2011 pg. 7