Queer 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. Forfurthervolumes: http://www.springer.com/series/7472 · John C. Landreau Nelson M. Rodriguez Editors Queer Masculinities A Critical Reader in Education 123 Editors Dr.JohnC.Landreau Dr.NelsonM.Rodriguez TheCollegeofNewJersey TheCollegeofNewJersey DepartmentofWomen’s DepartmentofWomen’s andGenderStudies andGenderStudies BlissHall,Room116 BlissHall,Room116 P.O.Box7718 P.O.Box7718 2000PenningtonRoad 2000PenningtonRoad Ewing,NJ08628-0718 Ewing,NJ08628-0718 USA USA [email protected] [email protected] ISBN978-94-007-2551-5 e-ISBN978-94-007-2552-2 DOI10.1007/978-94-007-2552-2 SpringerDordrechtHeidelbergLondonNewYork LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2011938622 ©SpringerScience+BusinessMediaB.V.2012 Nopartofthisworkmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorby anymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,microfilming,recordingorotherwise,withoutwritten permissionfromthePublisher,withtheexceptionofanymaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurpose ofbeingenteredandexecutedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework. Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) 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. vii 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 ix x Contents 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] xi