Edward W Morris

Learning the Hard Way

Masculinity, Place, and the Gender Gap in Education

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores and analyses detailed ethnographic data to examine the purported gender gap between boys and girls in educational achievement at two low-income high schools - one rural and predominantly white, the other urban and mostly African American. It explains how race, class, and geographic location combine to influence and complicate the construction of gender identities in high school students and affect the respective academic performance of the students he studied.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780813553696
• ISBN-10: 0813553695
• Artikelnr.: 36198190

Autorenporträt

EDWARD W. MORRIS is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Kentucky and the author of An Unexpected Minority: White Kids in an Urban School (Rutgers University Press).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Respect and Respectability
3. The Hidden Injuries of Gender
4. Too Cool for School: Masculinity and the Contradictions of Achievement
5. Rednecks and Rutters: Rural Masculinity and Class Anxiety
6. Clownin' and Riffin': Urban Masculinity and the Complexity of Race
7. "Girls Just Care about It More": Femininity and Achievement As
Resistance
8. Friday Night Fights
9. Conclusion
Appendix. Research Methods: Process and Representation
Notes
References
Index