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Direct linkSwain, Jon – Gender and Education, 2005
This paper explores the effect of cross gender relations on the construction of boys' masculine identities. The findings are based on data gathered from a year long empirical study of 10 to 11-year-old boys set in three UK junior schools. Although masculinity is defined against femininity and boys needed to mark out a set of distinctions from…
Descriptors: Females, Sexual Identity, Social Class, Males
