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Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School |  | Author: C. J. Pascoe
Publisher: University of California Press
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.8 x 1
ISBN: 0520252306
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.7640835109794
EAN: 9780520252301
ASIN: 0520252306
Publication Date: June 4, 2007
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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.
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 Timely February 19, 2010
Kai Calil Toshumba
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
My book came on time and was just as the seller described its condition, I was very pleased.
Excellent condition February 10, 2010
Kristin Brock (USA)
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Book was shipped soon after I purchased it and arrived in excellent condition. I am very pleased with my purchase.
 Great concept, isolated population of study October 12, 2009
Don (Wisconsin)
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
Well first off I am a currently a freshman male in college required to read this book.
Dude You're a Fag is a very interesting review of the development of masculinity and gender in high school. The author Pascoe takes an observer role in a high school for 18 months. She treads the lines between student and adult therefore she manages to build a rapport with a great number of students. This method brought a great deal of information to her study that would have been otherwise impossible if she was an authority figure.
Although I found the examination presented in this book thought provoking, it was also extreme. Having just graduated from high school, I was very surprised to not relate to very many of the behaviors the students exhibited. While the students were hormonally laden and certain behaviors are expected, I was under the impression that the administrators and teachers did not care what went on in their school besides open sex education (which they cowered in fear of). There was a point in the book when a gay student recollected the bullying he faced where I almost had to stop reading the book. I know without a doubt most of the teen behavior described would not have been allowed and would have been disciplined at my high school. Maybe public school in Wisconsin are completely different, but I was simply appalled at the content of this book. I would be eager to read the results she would find by repeating the study in my high school. Then we could tell if the school was that bad or if there was some bias introduced.
So I guess in summary, I do recommend this book but not whole-heartedly. The basic themes identified and suggestions for improvement were all great, but I would caution all readers to not base their thoughts on teens and high school from this one account.
 yuk July 8, 2009
Keith E. Korneisel
3 out of 43 found this review helpful
Waste of money. If she got a PHD on this, we are in trouble.
 A high school teacher for 36 years speaks..... May 29, 2009
Bill Foster (presently in Vermont)
4 out of 26 found this review helpful
During the 36 years I taught high school science I occasionally came across a modified type of behavior Pascoe speaks of. I consider that I was "tuned in" to what was going on around me in the "student world."
However, although there were times when students (both boys and girls) would be "picked on" for one reason or another - and, although teens can be hurtful to one another I never experienced kids as vicious nor as "sexual" as the boys who attended Pascoe's River High. River High had a much smaller attendance than where I taught - so - maybe kids at River
interacted more frequently and knew each more intimately than the kids at my school. We all know that hormone levels are running high in teens, but at River High it seems like hormone levels were in "flood stage."
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