Learning the Hard Way : Masculinity, Place, and the Gender Gap in Education /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morris, Edward W., 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sex differences in education.
Men > Identity.
Black people > Race identity.
Academic achievement.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
EDUCATION > Educational Psychology.
Hommes > États-Unis > Identite > Études de cas.
Differences entre sexes en education > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Academic achievement > United States > Case studies.
Black people > Race identity > United States > Case studies.
Men > United States > Identity > Case studies.
High school boys > United States > Social conditions > Case studies.
Sex differences in education > United States > Case studies.
United States.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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