Dude, You're a Fag

Masculinity and Sexuality in High School

High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on 18 months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, Dude, You're a Fag sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and as a set of social practices. 

C. J. Pascoe's unorthodox approach analyzes masculinity as not only a gendered process, but also a sexual one. She demonstrates how the "specter of the fag" becomes a disciplinary mechanism for regulating heterosexual, as well as homosexual boys and how the "fag discourse" is as much tied to gender as it is to sexuality.

(P)2021 Tantor

Mind Blowing

Never new realized how much homophobic language and actions are truly ingrained inside the masculinity discourse.

Wish I had this book growing up as a gay teen

Good read for queer and young teens. And parents alike especially when coming to sexuality and gender

The narrator sucks.

I tried really hard to push through this book, but the narration is awful. I'm also queer and the book doesn't tell it tells me anything I didn't already know. We should absolutely question and talk about and teach kids not to be homophobic, not to use the f word or slurs in general. But there are a one or two points the author th tried to make that I think are a little unnecessary. I would give it a higher rating with a different narrator.