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'You're Actually the Problem': Manifestations of Populist Masculinist Anxieties in Australian Higher Education
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Gray, Emily M.; Nicholas, Lucy – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
In 2016 the world witnessed a consolidation of a western brand of political 'populist authoritarianism' that is anti-globalisationalist and creates 'shared objects of loathing' in the popular imagination. This article engages with the implications of this affective and masculinist 'post-truth' era for higher education and analyses the narratives…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masculinity, Social Theories, Gender Issues
Young Nunga Males at Play and Playing Up: The Look and the Talk
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Blanch, Faye Rosas – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2011
This paper explores how Foucault's concept of the panopticon, power and knowledge impacts on the identity of young Nunga males in a secondary educational institution. I argue that the regulation of the Nunga body in schools is embedded in the discursive formations of knowledge about Indigenous people and the workings of power that are tied up in…
Descriptors: Play, Indigenous Populations, Popular Culture, Schools
"Six Packs and Big Muscles, and Stuff like That". Primary School-Aged South African Boys, Black and White, on Sport
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Bhana, Deevia – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2008
This paper explores the salience of sport in the lives of eight-year-old and nine-year-old South African primary school boys. Drawing on ethnographic and interview data, I argue that young boys' developing relationship with sport is inscribed within particular gendered, raced and classed discourses in South Africa. Throughout the paper I show…
Descriptors: Young Children, Foreign Countries, Males, Ethnography
Men Accessing Education: Masculinities, Class and Choice
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Woodin, Tom; Burke, Penny Jane – Australian Educational Researcher, 2007
This paper draws on an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded research project on men (aged 18-54) participating in pre-university access and foundation programs in four London further and higher education colleges. Men's educational choices and decisions are analysed and discussed within current policy debates about widening…
Descriptors: Working Class, Middle Class, Foundation Programs, Lifelong Learning
Sharing the Same World: Boys' Relations with Girls during Their Last Year of Primary School
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Swain, 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
Race, Feminine Power, and the Vietnam War in Philip Red Eagle's "Red Earth"
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Andrews, Scott – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2004
In her book "The Remasculinization of America," Susan Jeffords discusses the dynamics of how differences such as race and class are erased in filmic and literary representations of the Vietnam War. She asserts that one difference is not overcome by the battlefield: gender, a barrier that is depicted in the literature as natural and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, United States Literature, Race, Racial Differences