High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are
brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen
months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, Dude,
You're a Fag sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and
as a set of social practices. C. J. Pascoe's unorthodox approach analyzes
masculinity as not only a gendered process but also a sexual one.
She demonstrates how the "specter of the fag" becomes a disciplinary
mechanism for regulating heterosexual as well as homosexual boys and how
the "fag discourse" is as much tied to gender as it is to sexuality.

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