Multiple Masculinities

Teenage Boys Talk about Jocks and Gender

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3756239
AutoresC J Pascoe (0000-0002-8234-8689, University of California, Berkeley, autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Volume46
Fascículo10
Páginas1423-1438
Data de publicação2003-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764203046010009
OpenAlexW2002578096
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas56
Referências citadas22

Through interviews with 20 teenage boys at two high schools, the author examines the ways in which boys from different school subcultures engage with the most dominantly masculine of the school's peer groups-the Jocks. The author investigates how boys from less "masculine" groups maintain a sense of self as masculine. The boys do this by reworking meanings of group membership and gendered identity to include masculinized attributes associated with Jocks, such as competence, heterosexual success, and dominance. These findings indicate that a simplistic deployment of the "multiple masculinities" model may miss some of the ways gender works in a given setting. The author argues that typologies overlook the complex ways in which masculinity is discursively manipulated so that even boys who are understood as less masculine within a school's social hierarchy maintain or create a sense of self as recognizably masculine

Competence (human resources) · Dominance (genetics) · Hierarchy · Masculinity · Peer group · Political science · Social hierarchy · Sociology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Physical Education and Pedagogy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Development and Social Support