Masculinities and Other Hopeless Causes at an All-Boys Catholic School (Complicated Conversation

Author: Kevin J. Burke
Edition: First printing
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1433115379

Masculinities and Other Hopeless Causes at an All-Boys Catholic School (Complicated Conversation: a Book Series of Curriculum Studies)

We get our fixed-or malleable-notions of sexuality and gender from a variety of sources: family expectations, a hypersexualizing media gaze, and through the dictates of those great monoliths, Faith and Obedience within a/the Church. Download Masculinities and Other Hopeless Causes at an All-Boys Catholic School (Complicated Conversation: a Book Series of Curriculum Studies) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. However, gender is also being formed in the well-worn halls and the ordered environment of classrooms: schools are the great throughways where gender gets most articulated-bartered for and with-during adolescence. This book documents a year-long autoethnographic study in an all-boys Catholic secondary school. It elucidates how schooling helps form both assumptions and practices about what it means to become a man, and examines how these discourses are reshaped by young men in their daily lives. In the pr Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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