ERIC Number: EJ1145875
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
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Adolescent Boys, Embodied Heteromasculinities and Sexual Violence
Messerschmidt, James W.
Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, v7 n2 p113-126 2017
In this paper the author summarizes several life history case studies of adolescent boys who were identified at school as "wimps" and who eventually engaged in various forms of sexual violence. Such boys rarely are--if at all--discussed in the childhood, education and feminist literatures on sexual violence. The life stories reveal the interrelationship among in-school bullying, reflexivity, embodied structured action, and the social construction of heteromasculinities in the commission of sexual violence by subordinated boys. The author concludes by considering the implications the research has to the evolving discourses on social scientific conceptualizations of reflexive embodiment and heteromasculinities.
Descriptors: Males, Correlation, Bullying, Masculinity, Case Studies, Whites, Working Class, Rejection (Psychology), Interviews, Sexual Abuse, Rape, Personal Narratives, Peer Acceptance, Adolescents, Educational Experience, Peer Relationship, Sexuality, Violence, Physical Characteristics, Power Structure
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education. University of Ljubljana Kardeljeva plošcad 16. Slovenia. Tel: +386-1-5892-344; e-mail: editors@cepsj.si; Web site: http://www.cepsj.si/doku.php?id=en:cepsj
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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