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by Paul Sargent
What do men in American society experience as they attempt to lead gender-atypical lives? Sargent (sociology, San Diego State) addresses this question and others in this outstanding study, which will engage both casual readers and academics. Sargent interviewed 35 men, ages ranging from early twenties to late fifties, who made up three percent of the teachers in selected K-3 public school districts. He also kept a journal to track how his own values and preconceived notions about men may have influenced data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
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ARTICLE... by Paul Sargent.
The Absent Presence of Gender in the Lives of Men Elementary School Teachers
This paper examines what male elementary school teachers, particularly those in the primary grades, actually experience and what that experience means to them. It looks at how they construct their own masculinities on a daily basis, how they perceive their dramatic under-representation in the occupation and what meanings this arrangement has for them. Finally, it describes their feelings and ideas about the issue of increasing the number of males in elementary teaching. I believe that this knowledge will help in the identification of any mechanisms that work to reproduce the gender order by obstructing men's entrance into predominately female occupations.
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Jeff's Life... monthly column by Jeff Stimpson
Alex
My mother used to say she liked babies because they stayed where you put them. I never agreed, finding an active baby inherently more interesting. Still, it feels heavy to look at Ned and think that he's my last child and that a time of his life is gone already. It saddens Jill when I mimic the face Ned made when he came home and wanted to eat: wide-eyed, sweet, a blossom. Now, sometimes when he smiles it's with the face of a New Yorker who's found a cab in the rain.
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Article... by Donald Walker
Everything You Know is Wrong
If you're old enough to remember Firesign Theater's famous sketch, then, like me, you've probably spent more than one sleepless night wondering "what the hell happened?" I remember one evening, back in the 1970's, when the network news came on filled with doom and gloom about runaway inflation, yadda yadda yadda. That night I lay abed all night and worried about it, wondering how my income would ever keep pace, why my marriage wasn't working, why disco was moving to the top of the charts, and why the orbital mind control lasers seemed to be completely bollixed up. I didn't watch the network news again until the U.S. won the Olympic hockey match against the USSR (remember the Soviet Union-they used to be the bad guys.)
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COYOTE... monthly column by Dick Prosapio
The Lesson
My dad was a self-taught musician. A guy breaking out of the do-anything-to-survive mode during the Great Depression. He hated the mind numbing brick laying and ditch digging CCC programs of the 30's. He wanted adventure and romance. He wanted to do it his way. That much he passed on to me. He went out and bought a second hand guitar, tied a rope on it for a strap and set to work learning to play it. It was a labor of determination for him. It was the magic carpet for his dream.
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