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“This insightful peek into the realities of high school should be read by researchers, administrators, teachers, and parents. . . . Pascoe’s analysis is sophisticated, mapping the intricacies involved in the relationships between sexuality, gender, race, and class. Yet, her work is clean-cut and difficult to argue against.” * Men & Masculinities *
“An incisive assessment.” * Seattle Gay News *
“Introspective, fascinating, consistently interesting.” * Bay Area Reporter *
“Current, typically salient, personally informative, [and] lively in style. . . . The exemplary fieldwork vignettes and case studies are abundant, rich, vivid, and experientially resonant. At the same time, [Pascoe] has thoroughly theorized her narrative, providing a fine conceptual vocabulary, a probing critical framework, and a set of intelligent practical recommendations.” * General Anthropology Bulletin *
“Academic, but accessible.” * Bottom Line *
"Pascoe is able to witness the quotidian rituals of heterosexual masculinity, its precariousness, its fragility and ultimately, its dangerous lashing out at all that can undermine it." * Social Forces *
"Pascoe gives a fly-on-the-wall experience of sexuality in high school." * Journal of Gender Studies *
"Pascoe's work challenges research on gender, and specifically masculinity, to address sexuality, race, and other significant factors as aspects of the social construction of masculinities." * Gender & Society *
"Not only is the information interesting and relevant to our society, but Pascoe’s book is a great representation of ethnographic protocol." * Lambda Alpha Journal *
"Usefully calls for a more sophisticated approach to issues surrounding teenage sexuality, masculinity and power than is generally enabled by uncritical applications of a generic notion of homophobia." * Culture, Health, & Sexuality *
"The book nicely illustrates how masculinity comprises thoughts and ideas that are collectively defined and asserted, and how salient such issues are for high school students." * 126 Spaces for Difference: An Interdisciplinary Journal *