EDUCATON - GENDER - PUPIL SEXUAL IDENITITY

Question 1

double standard in schools

Answer 1

when we apply one set of morals to one group but not to another. Lees identifies a double standard of sexual morality in which boys can explicitly say their sexual activates but a girl would be labelled a slag if she doesn’t have a bf or the way she dresses.

Question 2

verbal abuse - cornell view

Answer 2

Cornell calls “a rich vocabulary of abuse” is one of the ways in which dominant gender and sexual identities are ranforced. For example boys use name calling to put girls down if they behave or dress in certain ways.

Question 3

verbal abuse - lees -

Answer 3

. Lees found boys called girls slags if they appeared to be sexually active.

Question 4

verbal abuse - preacher -

Answer 4

Preacher says name calling is helping to shape gender identity and maintain power.

Question 5

verbal abuse - parker -

Answer 5

Parker found boys labelled as gay for being friendly with teaches.

Question 6

male gaze - mac and ghali

what do they see it as?

Answer 6

Mac and ghali refer to this as male gaze. The way male pupils and teacher look girls up and down seeing them as sexual objects and making judgments. Mac and ghali see this as a form of surveillance. Through where the dominant heterosexual identity is reinforced. In one ways male use this gain approval

Question 7

male peer group - epsiten and wills

Answer 7

also reinforce verbal abuse to define their masculinity. Epstein and wills show boys in anti school subculture do so to prevent labels

Question 8

female peer groups - ringrose study

Answer 8

Ringrose study of 13 - 14 working class girls found that being popular was part of their identity and crucial to friendship groups. This caused tension between the idealized femine identity; showing of loyalty to the female peer group being non comparative and getting along with everybody and the sexualsised identity; competitiveness of having a bf.