On Fighting and Football: Gender Justice and Theories of Identity Construction

Autor/in	Keddie, Amanda
Titel	On Fighting and Football: Gender Justice and Theories of Identity Construction
Quelle	In: International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 18 (2005) 4, S.425-444 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-8398
Schlagwörter	Masculinity; Males; Justice; Sexual Identity; Feminism; Aggression; Identification (Psychology); Gender Issues; Social Influences; Young Children; Foreign Countries; Peer Relationship; Socialization + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Männlichkeit; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Gerechtigkeit; Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität; Feminismus; Geschlechterfrage; Sozialer Einfluss; Frühe Kindheit; Ausland; Peer-Beziehungen; Socialisation; Sozialisation
Abstract	This paper examines how collective masculinities, mobilized around violence, aggression and negative constructions of 'femininity', might be understood from perspectives that draw on humanist tenets of identity construction, on the one hand, and poststructural tenets, on the other. The paper presents a narrative from a study into boys' peer culture to explore the potential implications of these two different theoretical perspectives. In drawing on humanist tenets to understand boys' collective and individual behaviour, the study's data demonstrates how 'common sense' and prescriptive teacher philosophies and strategies might be seen as constraining gender justice through linear and essentially fixed accounts of masculinity. In understanding boys' collective and individual behaviours as discursively produced, the tenets of poststructural theory are presented as potentially generative for teachers in terms of enabling gender justice through an illumination of the complex, dynamic and often contestatory ways collective masculinities are spoken into existence. In making transparent spaces for transformation within a social justice framework, the tenets of feminist poststructural theory are positioned as central in enhancing boys' academic and behavioural outcomes. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10