The Discipline of Love: Negotiation and Regulation in Boys’ Performance of a Romance-Based Heterosexual Masculinity  

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Redman, Peter

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Men and Masculinities vol. 4 no. 2 (Oct. 2001), page 186-200.
Topik: romance; heterosexual masculinities; disciplinary practices; dialogics; cultural negotiation
Fulltext: 186MMS42.pdf (71.15KB)

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This article draws on a small-scale qualitative study to explore the relationship between some of the more implicit disciplinary dimensions of schooling and a group of boys’ investments in heterosexual romance. It argues that romance provided the boys with a cultural repertoire—that is, a narrative resource or set of discursive practices—through which they negotiated and made imaginative sense of the “little cultural world” of their college. In particular, the article suggests that romance served to police and discipline relations of class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality in the pupils’ culture while providing for the boys a mode of subjective orientation to key disciplinary practices of schooling. As such, romance may be seen as a resource through which the boys “worked themselves into” the dispositions of a middle-class or professional habitus.

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