ABSTRACT
In Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, C.J. Pascoe reported on his fieldwork in a California high school, where he observed how the norms of ‘institutionalized heterosexuality’ were enforced through formal and informal strictures that were embedded deeply in the structure and culture of school life. This included ritualized and routinized threats, ostracism, bullying and harassment of students who did not fit the expected masculine or feminine gender roles and ‘institutionalized heterosexuality’. Indeed, for adolescents, an important part of the very definitions of masculine and feminine originate in contrast to those of their peers perceived to ...
