The making of men
Subtitle: masculinities, sexualities and schooling
By: Mairtin Mac an Ghaill.
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Buckingham; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Education -- Social aspects -- England; Masculinity -- England; Sex differences in education -- England; Sexism in education -- England
Description: Mairtin Mac an Ghaill explores how boys learn to be men in schools whilst policing their own and others' sexualities. He focuses upon the students' confusions and contradictions in their gendered experiences; and upon how schools actively produce, through the official and hidden curriculum, a range of masculinities which young men come to inhabit. He does full justice to the complex phenomenon of male heterosexual subjectives and to the role of schooling in forming sexual identities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-201) and indexes.