- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: University of California Press (11 May 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0520252306
- ISBN-13: 978-0520252301
- Product Dimensions: 22.7 x 15.5 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 890,024 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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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C.J. Pascoe is Postdoctoral Scholar with the Digital Youth Project at the Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I really enjoyed this book, The Author covers all sorts of issues, from not only masculinity in males, but also in women. It wasn't difficult to read, nor was it simplified.
Ten/ten. I'd recommend it to everyone who's interested in this sort of book.
Ten/ten. I'd recommend it to everyone who's interested in this sort of book.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Fascinating Descriptions, Flat Analysis
5 Feb 2012
Format:Paperback
I really enjoyed this book. Pascoe does a good job providing a detailed description of masculinity within a variety of social settings at Riverton High School. Unfortunately, she spends more time on specific spaces (such as auto-shop) and certain groups of students (like the Basketball Girls), than on the school as a whole. I wonder if she would have gotten slightly different results had she focused on more generic spaces such as 'the classroom'. Still, Pascoe does a great job explaining how masculinity is at work in these settings. Some of her explanations go against what the students said, which makes some of her claims somewhat suspicious, though I found most of her arguments in these cases convincing. I particularly appreciated Pascoe's use of Butler's idea of the specter, which she applied to the term/identity/idea of 'the fag'. I applaud Pascoe for including race analysis in this work, though it is only a minor part and doesn't go into great depth, I still think she used it well.
My big complaint about this book is that there isn't anything amazing in her conclusion. I was so happy to see that she included both 'theoretical implications' and 'practical' implications. However, her suggestions in the conclusion were not ground-breaking.
Finally, Pascoe extends 'the fag discourse' further than I would have expected. She includes not only times when students explicity say 'fag' as discourse, but also times when these students (male) imitate effeminate behavior. While I think it was appropriate to do so, I was disappointed in her lack of ability to see the radical potential in the effeminate imitations. She chalked up these imitations to be purely anti-fag. Perhaps in the situations she saw it was such, but I have seen situations in which these imitations have been part of the 'deep play' she ends up suggesting would help break the sexism and heterosexism/homophobia so rampant in American high schools today. Yet, she didn't make the connection between the two.
My big complaint about this book is that there isn't anything amazing in her conclusion. I was so happy to see that she included both 'theoretical implications' and 'practical' implications. However, her suggestions in the conclusion were not ground-breaking.
Finally, Pascoe extends 'the fag discourse' further than I would have expected. She includes not only times when students explicity say 'fag' as discourse, but also times when these students (male) imitate effeminate behavior. While I think it was appropriate to do so, I was disappointed in her lack of ability to see the radical potential in the effeminate imitations. She chalked up these imitations to be purely anti-fag. Perhaps in the situations she saw it was such, but I have seen situations in which these imitations have been part of the 'deep play' she ends up suggesting would help break the sexism and heterosexism/homophobia so rampant in American high schools today. Yet, she didn't make the connection between the two.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Depends on why you read it.
8 Nov 2011
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I originally purchased this book for my Sociology class in college. This book not only helps to inform and educate, but is also a huge eye opener to me. I never originally planned on reading the rest of the book after my class had ended. This book itself was so shocking that it literally changed my views on masculinity and femininity for who knows, maybe my entire life. I'll admit that I wish this book wasn't assigned, but its something I recommend to those who wish to take a stand against bullying in the education system when it comes to masculinity and other issues such as this. Its a good read, just was hard for me personally.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Interesting book, but a little biased 3.5 stars
3 Nov 2011
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I read this book for a class required by my undergrad, so I may have a different mindset than one who read it for fun.
Pascoe spent several weeks in a NorCal high school, studying the impact and influence of gender and sexuality with these kids. Their personal interviews are surprisingly insightful and self-reflective. The big, stereotypical star football player is very aware of gender roles and double standards. There is another popular female athlete who dresses as a drag queen for halloween, and finds it riotously funny. Many parts of this book are less-than objective, which is understandable when dealing with this part of anthropology.
But, the setting (public high school) and the layman's language makes this book something a person from any area of study can read to help open his mind to new ideas (or even just the study of them).
Pascoe spent several weeks in a NorCal high school, studying the impact and influence of gender and sexuality with these kids. Their personal interviews are surprisingly insightful and self-reflective. The big, stereotypical star football player is very aware of gender roles and double standards. There is another popular female athlete who dresses as a drag queen for halloween, and finds it riotously funny. Many parts of this book are less-than objective, which is understandable when dealing with this part of anthropology.
But, the setting (public high school) and the layman's language makes this book something a person from any area of study can read to help open his mind to new ideas (or even just the study of them).
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