Dude, You're a Fag
Dude, You're a Fag : Masculinity and Sexuality in High School
- Format: Paperback | 248 pages
- Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 15mm | 363g
- Publication date: 11 Nov 2011
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: Berkerley, United States
- Language: English
- Edition Statement: 2nd edition
- ISBN10: 0520271483
- ISBN13: 9780520271487
- Bestsellers rank: 322,455
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.