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At best, sex education typically focuses on the “birds and the bees” or on highly individualistic models of decision-making. Absent is attention to the emergent quality of meaning and the collective production of identity and knowledge. One innovative nonprofit, Scenarios USA, turns this traditional thinking on its head by asking students to reflect about the meaning of masculinity in their own lives. If a boy cries is he less of a man? If he doesn’t sleep around or if he steps down from a fight, is he still masculine? The work done by students resulted in more than the success of the Scenarios “What’s the REAL DEAL about masculinity?” competition and curriculum. It opened avenues for children in their everyday lives to “reveal new ways of knowing” (Collins, 1990) to themselves and to their peers. A program evaluation of the curriculum as it is being delivered provides a case study of how classrooms in mostly African-American high schools in Cleveland were converted into empowering discursive work spaces exploring fatherhood; strength, power, and violence; sexuality and intimate relationships; and the link between masculinity and money. Beliefs about masculinity appeared as they truly are: fluid, context-dependent, and collectively produced. Observations presented in this paper show that at the core of these productions of collective masculinity stood the mostly unshakable idea that a real man is a father who works to provide financially for his children. |
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| El-Hinnawy, Naela. "What is a real man?: Deconstructing Traditional Masculinity in Adolescent Discourse" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA, Jul 31, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p242945_index.html> |
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| El-Hinnawy, N. , 2008-07-31 "What is a real man?: Deconstructing Traditional Masculinity in Adolescent Discourse" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p242945_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: At best, sex education typically focuses on the “birds and the bees” or on highly individualistic models of decision-making. Absent is attention to the emergent quality of meaning and the collective production of identity and knowledge. One innovative nonprofit, Scenarios USA, turns this traditional thinking on its head by asking students to reflect about the meaning of masculinity in their own lives. If a boy cries is he less of a man? If he doesn’t sleep around or if he steps down from a fight, is he still masculine? The work done by students resulted in more than the success of the Scenarios “What’s the REAL DEAL about masculinity?” competition and curriculum. It opened avenues for children in their everyday lives to “reveal new ways of knowing” (Collins, 1990) to themselves and to their peers. A program evaluation of the curriculum as it is being delivered provides a case study of how classrooms in mostly African-American high schools in Cleveland were converted into empowering discursive work spaces exploring fatherhood; strength, power, and violence; sexuality and intimate relationships; and the link between masculinity and money. Beliefs about masculinity appeared as they truly are: fluid, context-dependent, and collectively produced. Observations presented in this paper show that at the core of these productions of collective masculinity stood the mostly unshakable idea that a real man is a father who works to provide financially for his children. |
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| What is a real man?: Deconstructing Traditional Masculinity in the Adolescent Discourse by Naela El-Hinnawy Research Consultant Scenarios USA 1 Introduction At best sex education typically focuses on the “birds and the bees” or on highly individualistic models of decision-making. Absent is attention to the emergent quality of meaning and the collective production of identity and knowledge. One innovative nonprofit Scenarios USA turns this traditional thinking on its head by asking students to reflect about the meaning of masculinity |
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