Introduction: Gender as performance -- Teacher research: texts and subtexts -- The gender circus -- Bad boys and their stories -- Silence as a fortress and a prison -- Posing -- The Saturday game -- Your mother squeezes your brains out of your ears -- Sing a song to your friends to make them feel better -- "What does that mean, the 'N' word?"-- Girls in public -- Dreamin' of how it could be -- Afterword.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-150) and index.