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Abstract „Konsumkultur und Männlichkeiten: Überschneidungen von Gender und Peer-Kulturen in alltäglichen Schulroutinen“
The contribution work out that consumption is symbolically central to the ways in which masculinities are constructed and performed. Based on a British interview study with pupils aged from 11 to 18, the authors show, that boys used consumption to differentiate themselves from girls and some groups of boys and to make claims to inclusion in normative masculinity. Both boys and girls were invested in constructing and maintaining gendered differences in consumption. Boys often worked hard to ensure that they constructed boys in opposition to how they constructed girls. The discussion of consumption frequently put boys into troubled subject positions that they had to negotiate in order to maintain the distinctions they were careful to establish between themselves and girls.
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Phoenix, A., Pattman, R., Croghan, R., Griffin, C., Hunter, J. (2009). Consuming Masculinities: Intersections of Gender and Peer Culture in Everyday School Practices. In: Budde, J., Mammes, I. (eds) Jungenforschung empirisch. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91759-7_11
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