"I'm Not Going to Be a Girl": Masculinity and Emotions in Boys' Friendships and Peer Groups

Autor/inn/en	Oransky, Matthew; Marecek, Jeanne
Titel	"I'm Not Going to Be a Girl": Masculinity and Emotions in Boys' Friendships and Peer Groups
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescent Research, 24 (2009) 2, S.218-241 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0743-5584
DOI	10.1177/0743558408329951
Schlagwörter	Pain; Peer Relationship; Males; Masculinity; Adolescents; Friendship; Emotional Response; Expectation; Interviews; High School Students; Affective Behavior; Peer Influence; Racial Differences; Whites; Gender Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schmerz; Peer-Beziehungen; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Männlichkeit; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Freundschaft; Emotionales Verhalten; Expectancy; Erwartung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Rassenunterschied; White; Weißer; Geschlechterkonflikt
Abstract	This study examines the peer relations and emotion practices of adolescent boys in light of their expectations and assumptions about masculinity. We carried out semistructured interviews with middle-class and upper-middle-class boys from an independent high school. The boys reported that they assiduously avoided displays of emotional or physical pain and disparaged such displays in other boys. They tied tough, stoic self-presentations to manliness; moreover, they said that their peer groups derided expressions of hurt and worry and of care and concern for others as "gay" or "girly." Boys described interactions with boys as centering on taunting, mocking, and "shoving around." Although these practices were hurtful, boys valued them as means of bolstering one another's masculinity. The study points out that securing masculinity demands ongoing efforts from boys and their peers. Moreover, it points to feeling rules and emotion practices as important constituents of young White masculinities. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10