‘Sticks and stones’: masculinities and conflict spaces
Drawing upon a post-structural ethnography of boys’ constructions of gendered and sexual identities in one South African high school, this paper empirically seeks to theorise how 20 Grade 8 boys, identified as The Jokers, The Achievers, The Outcasts and The Average Ou’s, simultaneously seek out spaces in male peer culture to cultivate, police and challenge hegemonic notions of masculinity.
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