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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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June 4, 2007
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"Laced with evocative stories based on ethnographic observations and interviews with high school kids, Dude, You're a Fag tells gripping stories of life in high school, while helping to extend the cutting edge of scholarly theory on gender and sexualities. C.J. Pascoe has contributed a highly readable and extremely insightful book that will be required reading for students and scholars of youth and the construction of sex and gender in schools."Michael A. Messner, author of Taking the Field: Women, Men and Sports

"This is a strikingly original study of schoolboys renegotiating class, gender, and ethnicity, along with the labeling as 'fag'. Here homophobia is at work in a path breaking study, which is also a highly readable must-read."Ken Plummer, University of Essex, and editor of Sexualities

"We know that schools are a central site for the construction of gender identity, but until C. J. Pascoe's careful and compassionate ethnography, we haven't known exactly how gender conformity is extracted from a slurry of humiliations, fears, and anxieties. Boys will not be boys unless they are made to be, by violence, real or implied. A troubling, thoughtful work."Michael Kimmel, author of Manhood in America

"Pascoe's thoughtful analysis of the rhetorical and interactional processes that constitute the field of masculinity for young, high school men coming of age is rich and engaging. With fresh insight and careful observation, Pascoe sheds new light on the complex interplay of masculinity, homophobia, sexuality, and the body, compelling us to rethink the formation of gender identities, collective gender practices, and the reproduction of gender inequalities."Amy L. Best, author of Prom Night: Youth, Schools and Popular Culture and Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelerating World of Youth and Their Cars

"In this superb ethnography of daily life in a contemporary high school, C. J. Pascoe highlights the sexualized dynamics of youthful masculinity. With vivid detail and perceptive analysis, she examines the 'fag talk' which pervades boys' conversations; the convergence of gender, sexual, and racialized practices in school rituals like the 'Mr. Cougar' contest; and the experiences of girls who display themselves as masculine. The result is a book that breaks fresh ground in masculinity and gender studies-and is a very good read!"Barrie Thorne, author of Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School

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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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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of California Press (June 4, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0520252306
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0520252301
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.51 x 9 inches

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CJ Pascoe is an Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Oregon. She teaches courses on sexuality, social psychology, deviance, gender and education. Her current research focuses on gender, youth, homophobia, sexuality and new media. Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, won the American Educational Research Association's 2007 Book of the Year Award. Dude documents the relationship between homophobic harassment, heterosexism and masculinity in high school. In it she suggests ways we might begin to redefine gender norms that are damaging to both boys and girls. She received her B.A. in Sociology from Brandeis University in 1996 and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2006.

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Benjamin Bailey

Reading this book was an insightful and painful flashback to high school and the scary interplay that ...

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2014

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If you are interested in a qualitative perspective of homophobic language, this is the book to read. Reading this book was an insightful and painful flashback to high school and the scary interplay that happens as people exercise their masculinity. Well written, smart, funny, and ultimately deeply powerful.

Patrick M. Hurst

Interesting examination

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2011

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Pascoe makes an interesting case for insights such as the fact that insults such as 'faggot' are oriented not totally on the basis of sexual orientation, but on the basis of masculinity; I don't know if I accept the argument that masculinity is necessarily dissociated from the male gender, but I still found it a compelling read.

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If you are interested in learning about the enforcement of heteronormativity in high schools, this text is where you need to begin. Pascoe's research sheds light on the complexities of gender and sexuality in an average American high school.

Great concept, isolated population of study

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2009

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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.

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... in a timely manner and the book is a good

Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2015

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I received it in a timely manner and the book is a good read

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Excrement on paper

Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2008

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And even that is being too kind for this vile blob of feminist tripe. I've read many books but almost none have reached the level of thinly masked hatred on paper that "Dude, You're a Fag" is filled with. While the title, alone, is offensive, the content is even more repugnant than what one might expect. I was forced to read this book for a class. While I tend to be rather accepting of many things (and admittedly have limited tolerance for others) this book is, without question, one of the most bigoted piles of misandrist garbage imaginable.

After getting over the initial shock of the childish title and glancing through the book - it appears that the topic of masculinity and sexuality in high school is genuine. Nothing wrong with that at all. In fact, if one can get past the title, the book appears be worth reading. It didn't take long, however, to figure out that not only does the author have an agenda (to bash males) but the "research" she conducted for this book also served as part of her dissertation at UC Berkeley. Pascoe makes it quite clear, from the beginning, that she is looking at male behavior from a "feminist perspective" and launched into her shocking "research" that served only to reinforce her hatred of all things with a phallus.

Pascoe spends a considerable amount of time at the pseudonymous "River High," a school located somewhere in Northern California (apparently, near the San Francisco Bay area). Her main "subjects" included the boys in weight lifting and auto shop classes (ostensibly bastions of "maleness"), drama groups, the school's Gay/Straight Alliance club, and the "basketball girls" (a self-identified group of loudmouthed tough girls). Sounds reasonable to me - NOT! While there is nothing wrong with any of these individual subsets of students found within the educational milieu - I've known plenty of wonderful people (male and female) who are interested in weight lifting, auto mechanics, and sports, as well as many fine people who are gay - Pascoe goes out of her way to find the most dysfunctional kids possible (especially boys) and then generalizes that each is representative of all others within that population.

Of the kids Pascoe studies, she focuses on those with a plethora of problems - the outcasts and kids on the fringe of society and those who display the most deviant behavior. If I remember correctly (I had to constantly guard against my gag reflex from overcoming me) only one of those kids (the lesbian homecoming queen - now, isn't that a paradox in itself?) aspired to attend college. The heterosexual boys were all oversexed fornication machines with one purpose in life (you get one guess as to what that might be) and no matter how bizarre or sexist the girls behaved, their actions were often described as "playful" (isn't that nice?). Just as disturbing is that in contrast to anything the boys might do, girls who engaged in sexist behavior were described as cute. For example, one girl likes to wear men's ties which, of course, anyone familiar with psychoanalytic theory should immediately associate with a giant phallus. Granted, the obvious association is very clear, even if psychoanalytic theory is now as old as stale bread. Sadly, it would appear that Pascoe also relies upon psychoanalytic theory (which, again, is extremely sexist) as one of the models she utilizes for her "research."

Another rather disturbing thing is that Pascoe frequently refers to the "masculine literature" - something which, of course, she never really identifies and which is certainly lacking from her rather extensive references (nearly all of which come from feminist sources). It came as no surprise when Pascoe finally identified herself as a lesbian at the end of her book. It's one thing to conduct unbiased research but Pascoe's clear predisposition as an angry misandrist shines through from the beginning. Hopefully, someone will eventually examine the topic of masculinity and sexuality in high school in the future - and we can only hope that will be done without the obvious hatred of men that Pascoe spews.

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better condition than i thought

Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2010

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i'm very happy with the product. it arrived at my house the first possible day it was going to. very cool

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