Effeminophobia and PEphobia—Boys’ Masculinities in Physical Education: A Review of Boys’ Bodies: Speaking the Unspoken

Abstract

This collection of essays, Boys’ Bodies: Speaking the Unspoken, delves into the social, psychological, and cultural mechanisms that bolster traditional masculine gender roles among boys and adolescents within school physical education environments, particularly gyms, sport arenas, and—especially pertinent to gay boys—the locker rooms. The contributors shed critical light on the subjugation of boys to disciplinary discourses and mechanisms while being sensitive to the misery inflicted on “sissy boys,” whether they are gay or not.

KEYWORDS:

• Adolescents
• book review
• boys
• effeminophobia
• gay
• gender role
• masculinity
• physical education
• sissy boy
• sport

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Notes on contributors

Amit Kama

Amit Kama, PhD, is a senior lecturer at the Department of Communication, Academic College of Emek Yezreel. His research focuses on various minority groups (lesbigays, people with disabilities, and migrant workers) and the construction of their identities vis-à-vis media(ted) (re)presentations. He has also been studying cultural constructions of the body.