High school & the difficult terrain of sexuality & gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart incisive ethnography Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school " Dude You're a Fag" sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning & as a set of social practices C J Pascoe's unorthodox approach analyzes masculinity as not only a gendered process but also a sexual one She demonstrates how the 'specter of the fag' becomes a disciplinary mechanism for regulating heterosexual as well as homosexual boys & how the 'fag discourse' is as much tied to gender as it is to sexuality