Table Of ContentQueer Masculinities
EXPLORATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE
Volume21
FoundingEditor
JoeKincheloe(1950–2008)
SeriesEditors
ShirleyR.Steinberg,McGillUniversity,Montreal,Quebec,Canada
KennethTobin,CityUniversityofNewYork,USA
EditorialBoard
BarrieBarrell,MemorialUniversityofNewfoundland,Canada
RochelleBrock,UniversityofIndiana,Gary,USA
StephenPetrina,UniversityofBritishColumbia,Canada
ChristineQuail,StateUniversityofNewYork,Oneonta,USA
NelsonRodriguez,TheCollegeofNewJersey,USA
LeilaVillaverde,UniversityofNorthCarolina,Greensboro,USA
JohnWillinsky,StanfordUniversity,USA
SeriesScope
In today’s dominant modes of pedagogy, questions about issues of race, class,
gender,sexuality,colonialism,religion,andothersocialdynamicsarerarelyasked.
Questionsaboutthesocialspaceswherepedagogytakesplace–inschools,media,
andcorporatethinktanks–arenotraised.Andtheyneedtobe.
TheExplorationsofEducationalPurposebookseriescanhelpestablisharenewed
interest in such questions and their centrality in the larger study of education and
thepreparationofteachersandothereducationalprofessionals.Theeditorsofthis
series feel that education matters and that the world is in need of a rethinking of
educationandeducationalpurpose.
Coming from a critical pedagogical orientation, Explorations of Educational
Purpose aims to have the study of education transcend the trivialization that often
degradesit.Ratherthanbecontentwiththefrivolous,scholarlylaxformsofteacher
educationandweakteachingprevailingintheworldtoday,weshouldworktowards
education that truly takes the unattained potential of human beings as its starting
point.Theserieswillpresentstudiesofalldimensionsofeducationandofferalter-
natives.Theultimateaimoftheseriesistocreatenewpossibilitiesforpeoplearound
the world who suffer under the current design of socio-political and educational
institutions.
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John C. Landreau Nelson M. Rodriguez
Editors
Queer Masculinities
A Critical Reader in Education
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Editors
Dr.JohnC.Landreau Dr.NelsonM.Rodriguez
TheCollegeofNewJersey TheCollegeofNewJersey
DepartmentofWomen’s DepartmentofWomen’s
andGenderStudies andGenderStudies
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InlovingmemoryofJoeL.Kincheloe,a
queereducatorofradicalhope,love,and
possibility.
FormymotherLauraandmyhusband
Damian,withoutwhomnot.(NR)
Acknowledgements
We would first like to thank the late Joe Kincheloe (1950–2008), who
enthusiastically took on this project. Joe always encouraged and supported intel-
lectual work in the broad areas of gender and queer studies. Shirley Steinberg has
alsobeenafierceandtirelessadvocateforpublishingworkintheseareas,andwe
can’t thank her enough. Many thanks are owed as well to our editors at Springer,
Harmen van Paradijs and Bernadette Ohmer, who have been helpful and patient
throughout. Finally, we would like to extend our thanks to all of the contributors
for their generosity and thoughtfulness; they have significantly helped to create a
criticalandhopefuldiscourseonthesubjectofqueermasculinitiesineducation.
John would like to thank The College of New Jersey, and provost Beth Paul,
forasabbaticalleavein2008–2009thatallowedmetobecomeimmersedinqueer
theoryandtothinkdeeplyabouthowandwhyIteachmycoursesinWomen’sand
GenderStudies.BothNelsonandIbenefitfrombeinginanamazingWomen’sand
Gender Studies department at TCNJ, and so much of my intellectual growth is a
direct outcome of that environment. I’d like to especially thank Ellen Friedman,
JanetGray,MaryLynnHopps,andAnnieNicolosifortheirfriendshipandsupport
over the years and for inspiring me to become a scholar in this field. My biggest
debtistoSherri,mypartner,withwhomIsharethemagicaladventureoflifeand
the less-magical one of academia. Her emotional and intellectual companionship
meaneverythingtome.
NelsonwouldspecificallyliketothankthemanystudentswhoI’vehadthehonor
ofworkingwithovertheyearsatTheCollegeofNewJersey.Theyhavebeenincred-
iblyopentoengagingwithqueerthought;theyarethedaringthinkersofacademia.
Iwouldalsoliketothankmyhusband,DamianKellogg,forhisunendingsupport.
I’msothankfultobelovedbysomeonewhothinks“queerly”andwholikestoplay
andlaughalot.
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Contents
1 QueerMasculinitiesinEducation:AnIntroduction . . . . . . . . . 1
JohnC.LandreauandNelsonM.Rodriguez
PartI QueerMasculinitiesattheK-12Level
2 QueeringMasculinitiesinMaleTeachers’Lives . . . . . . . . . . . 21
WayneMartino
3 Queer Masculinities, Gender Conformity,
andtheSecondarySchool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
MarkMcCormack
4 PhallicGirls?:Girls’NegotiationofPhallogocentricPower . . . . 47
EmmaRenoldandJessicaRingrose
5 TheQueerinMasculinity:Schooling,Boys,andIdentity
Formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
MáirtínMacanGhaillandChrisHaywood
6 TanglingwithMasculinity:Butchness,Trans,andFeminism . . . . 85
CrisMayo
7 Queering Classes: Disrupting Hegemonic Masculinity
andtheEffectsofCompulsoryHeterosexualityintheClassroom . 99
RobertHeasleyandBetsyCrane
PartII QueerMasculinitiesattheCollegiateLevel
8 Queering Masculine Peer Culture: Softening Gender
PerformancesontheUniversityDanceFloor. . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
GrantTylerPetersonandEricAnderson
9 DoesMasculinityHaveaRace?QueeringWhiteMasculinities . . . 139
BobbyNoble
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10 QueerListeningasaFrameworkforTeachingMen
andMasculinities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
JohnC.Landreau
11 BecomingtheLoon:QueerPedagogiesandFemaleMasculinity . . 169
StaceyWaite
12 Trading Gender: University Spaces as a Facilitator
for Transgressive Embodiment of Women
inMale-DominatedTrades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
LouisaSmith
PartIII QueerMasculinitiesandCulturalPedagogies
13 FightingFairies,GazingatMen:HowtoBecomeaQueer
Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
JefferyP.Dennis
14 “PleaseSir!CanIComeOutoftheClosetandintothe
Classroom?”:BritishLowCultureandRepresentations
ofQueerMasculinitiesinEducation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
PeterHughesJachimiak
15 Coming Undone: James Baldwin’s Another Country
andQueerPedagogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
DennisCarlson
16 QueerImaginativeBodiesandthePolitics
andPedagogyofTransGenerosity:TheCaseofGenderRebel . . . 267
NelsonM.Rodriguez
17 Educating-Bodies: Dialogism, Speech Genres,
andUtterancesastheBody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
DavidV.Ruffolo
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Contributors
EricAnderson WinchesterUniversity,Winchester,England,
[email protected]
DennisCarlson DepartmentofEducationalLeadership,MiamiUniversity,
Oxford,OH,USA,[email protected]
BetsyCrane WidenerUniversity,Chester,PA,USA,[email protected]
JefferyP.Dennis StateUniversityofNewYork,Oneonta,NY,USA,
[email protected]
ChrisHaywood SchoolofArtsandCultures,NewcastleUniversity,Newcastle
uponTyne,TyneandWear,UK,[email protected]
RobertHeasley IndianaUniversityofPennsylvania,Indiana,PA,USA,
[email protected]
PeterHughesJachimiak CardiffSchoolofCreativeandCulturalIndustries,
UniversityofGlamorgan,Wales,UK,[email protected]
JohnC.Landreau DepartmentofWomen’sandGenderStudies,TheCollegeof
NewJersey,Ewing,NJ,USA,[email protected]
MáirtínMacanGhaill NewmanUniversityCollege,Birmingham,UK,
[email protected]
WayneMartino TheUniversityofWesternOntario,London,ON,Canada,
[email protected]
CrisMayo DepartmentofEducationPolicy,OrganizationandLeadership,
DepartmentofGenderandWomen’sStudies,UniversityofIllinoisat
Urbana-Champaign,Champaign,IL,USA,[email protected]
MarkMcCormack BrunelUniversity,Uxbridge,Middlesex,UB83PH,London,
[email protected]
BobbyNoble YorkUniversity,Toronto,ON,Canada,[email protected]
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