Multiple Masculinities

Teenage Boys Talk about Jocks and Gender

Bibliographic Data

ID3756239
AuthorsC J Pascoe (0000-0002-8234-8689, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume46
Issue10
Pages1423-1438
Publication date2003-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764203046010009
OpenAlexW2002578096
LanguageEN
Citations received56
References cited22

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