"Queer Masculinities: A Critical Reader in Education "is a
substantial addition to the discussion of queer masculinities, of
the interplay between queer masculinities and education, and to the
political gender discourse as a whole. Enriching the discourse of
masculinity politics, the cross-section of scholarly interrogations
of the complexities and contradictions of queer masculinities in
education demonstrates that any serious study of masculinity
hegemonic or otherwise must consider the theoretical and political
contributions that the concept of queer masculinity makes to a more
comprehensive and nuanced understanding of masculinity itself.
The essays adopt a range of approaches from empirical studies to
reflective theorizing, and address themselves to three separate
educational realms: the K-12 level, the collegiate level, and the
level in popular culture, which could be called cultural pedagogy .
The wealth of detailed analysis includes, for example, the notion
that normative expectations and projections on the part of teachers
and administrators unnecessarily reinforce the values and behaviors
of heteronormative masculinity, creating an institutionalized loop
that disciplines masculinity. At the same time, and for this very
reason, schools represent an opportunity to provide a setting where
a broader menu can be introduced and gender/sexual meanings,
expressions, and experiences boys encounter can create new
possibilities of what it can mean to be male . At the collegiate
level chapters include analysis of what the authors call
homosexualization of heterosexual men on the university dance
floor, while the chapters of the third section, on popular culture,
include a fascinating analysis of the construction of queer
counternarratives that can be constructed watching TV shows of
apparently hegemonic bent. In all, this volume s breadth and detail
make it a landmark publication in the study of queer masculinities,
and thus in critical masculinity studies as a whole."
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