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The study of the nature and construction of gender and sexuality is a recognized and highly productive research area, and one that is highly suited to ethnographic methods. This book contains chapters that illustrate some of the range of work in the area and the power of ethnography to uncover the complex and contested processes of construction.
List of contents
Friends or foes? Interpersonal relations between girls in school (J. Holland et al.). Understanding heterosexualities: masculinities, embodiment and schooling (M.J. Kehily). Masculinities and English professional football: youth traineeship, sub-cultural expectation and gender identity (A. Parker). Football and relationships: gendered experiences of home? (C. Hudson). Being 'one of the lads': infant boys, masculinities and schooling (C. Skelton). First days in the field: gender and sexuality in an evangelical Christian school (G. Walford). Flirting from the threshold: escaping the gendered division of labour through sexual ambiguity - a case study of lesbian officers in the sea cadet corps (J. Raisborough). Schoolgirl frictions: young women, sex education and social experience (M.J. Kehily, A. Nayak). Troubling the auto/biography of the questioner: re/thinking rapport and the politics of social class in feminist participant observation (V. Hey). Opening the can of worms: gender and emotion in sensitive research (D. Carlyle). Does gender make a difference? A male researcher's reflexive account of gendered fieldwork relations in ethnographic work on stress in teaching (G. Troman).
Summary
The study of the nature and construction of gender and sexuality is a recognized and highly productive research area, and one that is highly suited to ethnographic methods. This book contains chapters that illustrate some of the range of work in the area and the power of ethnography to uncover the complex and contested processes of construction.
