@article{694086,
      author = {Morris, Edward W.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/694086},
      title = {Learning the hard way masculinity, place, and the gender  gap in education / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Rutgers University Press,},
      abstract = {An avalanche of recent newspapers, weekly news magazines,  scholarly journals, and academic books has helped to spark  a heated debate by publishing warnings of a "boy crisis" in  which male students at all academic levels have begun  falling behind their female peers. In this book the author  explores and analyzes detailed ethnographic data on this  purported gender gap between boys and girls in educational  achievement at two low-income high schools, one rural and  predominantly white, the other urban and mostly African  American. Crucial questions arose from his study of gender  at these two schools. Why did boys tend to show less  interest in and more defiance toward school? Why did girls  significantly outperform boys at both schools? Why did  people at the schools still describe boys as especially  "smart"? The author examines these questions and, in the  process, illuminates connections of gender to race, class,  and place. This book is not simply about the educational  troubles of boys, but the troubled and complex experience  of gender in school. It reveals how particular race, class,  and geographical experiences shape masculinity and  femininity in ways that affect academic performance. His  findings add a new perspective to the "gender gap" in  achievement.},
      recid = {694086},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 212 p.)},
      address = {New Brunswick, N.J. :},
      year = {2012},
}