Challenging Macho Values

Jonathan Salisbury taught in secondary schools for over twenty years and is presently working with boys in an inner-city comprehensive school in Derby as part of a research project. He has also been working with Nottingham Agenda and participating in men's conscious-raising groups for ten years. David Jackson taught in secondary English departments for nearly twenty years. He is co-founder of Nottingham Agenda, an anti-sexist programme that works with abusive and violent men and has been involved in men's groups and masculinity issues for over ten years.

• Acknowledgments, Acting Hard — A poem by David Jackson, Preface by Jeff Hearn, 1. Introduction: Why Should Schools Take Working with Adolescent Boys Seriously?, 2. The Secondary School as a Gendered Institution, 3. Boys’ Sexualities, 4. Sexual Harassment, 5. Violence and Bullying, 6. Media Education, Boys and Masculinities, 7. Language as a Weapon, 8. The Ideal Manly Body, 9. School Sport and the Making of Boys and Men, 10. Boys’ Well-being: Learning to Take Care of Themselves and Others, 11. How Boys Become Real Lads: Life Stories about the Making of Boys, 12. Playing War, 13. Fathers and Sons, Bibliography, Index