gender identities Flashcards
male peer groups reinforcing
Mac an Ghaill - working class boys tried to be cool by not working or would be called gay
m/c - work behind the scenes to project image of effortless achievement
female peer groups reinforcing
Archer - w/c girls that didnt confirm came into conflict with school so disadvantaged
girls create hyper-feminine, heterosexual image - male gaze - power and status
Ladette - school against her
verbal abuse
Mac an Ghaill
- girls seen as sexual objects and male gaze
Paetcher - gay and queer if bad at sport or do feminine subjects
double standarsd
Lees - boys boast about sexual exploits and call girl slut
social control - misogynistic attitudes
peer group evaluations
postmodernism - acceptance and diversity
Jackson - laddishness amongst girls increasing - allows girls to reduce risk of stigma
McCormac - male sixth form students showing more metrosexual identities
teachers
Haywood - male teachers told boys off for behaving like girls and ignored verbal abuse towards girls
Abraham - teachers’ ideas of girl was well behaved and studious
boy - trouble maker
radical feminism
patriarchy - in school
boys’ underachievement - moral panic - boys improving but not at rate of girls
girls do not seem to break the glass ceiling in careers
girls increasingly subject to sexist bullying - becoming worse with normalisation of pornography
liberal feminism
celebrate progress - law changes closing the gender gap
however gendered socialisation and subject choice
evaluation of feminist perspective
difficult to measure and operationalise the impact of peer groups and teachers in reinforcement of gender identities
postmodernists - students free to pick and choose identities - McCormac and Jackson
functionalist - feminists ignore positive functions of education
marxism - bigger process that students socialised into is false class consciousness
