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Informationen zum Autor EDWARD W. MORRIS is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Kentucky and the author of An Unexpected Minority: White Kids in an Urban School (Rutgers University Press). Klappentext Explores and analyses detailed ethnographic data to examine the purported gender gap between boys and girls in educational achievement at two low-income high schools - one rural and predominantly white, the other urban and mostly African American. It explains how race, class, and geographic location combine to influence and complicate the construction of gender identities in high school students and affect the respective academic performance of the students he studied. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments1. Introduction2. Respect and Respectability3. The Hidden Injuries of Gender4. Too Cool for School: Masculinity and the Contradictions of Achievement5. Rednecks and Rutters: Rural Masculinity and Class Anxiety6. Clownin' and Riffin': Urban Masculinity and the Complexity of Race7. "Girls Just Care about It More": Femininity and Achievement As Resistance8. Friday Night Fights9. ConclusionAppendix. Research Methods: Process and RepresentationNotesReferencesIndex
