Dude you're a fag: masculinity and sexuality in high school
Abstract
Through a picturesque ethnographic description, Pascoe’s Dude, you’re a fag: masculinity
and sexuality in high school gives a fly-on-the-wall experience of sexuality in high school.
Informed by an interactionist approach to gender, the book unveils taken-for-granted ways
in which masculinity is constructed through interactions, discourses and traditions like
prom, sports and drama. The study was conducted at River High, a high school in
California. I found the descriptions of setting, characters, discourses and events so
archetypical that I was reminded of my own high school experiences in an African context.
The setting is indeed a helpful case to think through contemporary constructions of
masculinity, sexuality and inequality.
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