‘Gay!’ vs. ‘Goy!’: Examining ‘Manliness’ in Yeshiva vs. Public High Schools
This semester, I read C. J. Pascoe’s Dude, You’re A Fag, an ethnography of a typical American public high school. To summarize some of Pascoe’s “findings” (I put “findings” in quotes because to most teenaged American boys, what follows may come as no surprise), high school boys become men in a two-part process: 1) embracing…