We get our fixed - or malleable - notions of sexuality and gender from a variety of sources:
family expectations a hypersexualizing media gaze and through the dictates of those great
monoliths Faith and Obedience within a the Church. However gender is also being formed in the
well-worn halls and the ordered environment of classrooms: schools are the great throughways
where gender gets most articulated - bartered for and with - during adolescence. This book
documents a year-long autoethnographic study in an all-boys Catholic secondary school. It
elucidates how schooling helps form both assumptions and practices about what it means to
become a man and examines how these discourses are reshaped by young men in their daily lives.
In the process the book explicates how students come to make sense of and exercise their own
identities amidst the discourses of the school around through and by religion and gender and
necessarily sexuality.
