Корично изображение Електронен

Learning the hard way masculinity, place, and the gender gap in education /

In Learning the Hard Way, Edward W. Morris explores and analyzes 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. He explains...

Пълно описание

Основен автор: Morris, Edward W., 1973-
Формат: Електронен
Език: English
Публикувано: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ℗♭2012.
Серия: Rutgers series in childhood studies.
Предмети:
Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=474124
Съдържание:
  • Introduction
  • Respect and respectability
  • The "hidden injuries" of gender
  • Too cool for school: masculinity and the contradictions of achievement
  • "Rednecks" and "rutters": rural masculinity and class anxiety
  • "Clownin'" and "riffin'": urban masculinity and the complexity of race
  • "Girls just care about it more": femininity and achievement as resistance
  • Friday night fights.