Gender Identity

Question 1

Male peer groups

Answer 1

Mac an Ghaill
- ‘macho lads’

Question 2

Teachers and discipline

Answer 2

Haywood and Mac an Ghaill
- boys told off for ‘behaving like girls’

Francis
- girls expected to be quiet and comformists

Question 3

Male gaze

Answer 3

Mac an Ghaill

Question 4

Verbal abuse

Answer 4

Francis
- boys dominate classroom discussions

Question 5

Female peer groups: Policing identity

Answer 5

Archer
- girls gain symbolic capital by performing hyper-heterosexual feminine identity

Currie et al
- balance competing demands
- female subculture and competing for boys

Reay
- if want success in education, present asexual identity

Question 6

‘Successful’ working-class girls

Answer 6

Evan’s
- go to university to increase earning power, not for themselves, but to help families