Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
1Remember When?
 2 Gender, Talk, and School Culture 
3Entering the World of Middle School 
4Segregating the Unpopular from the Popular 31
5 Tough Guys, Wimps, and Weenies 61
6Crude Comments and Sexual Scripts 83
7 Learning to Smile Through the Pain 103
8 We May Be Friends with Them, But We're Not
Sluts 125
9 Reconsidering Gender, Talk, and Inequality 149
10 Where Do We Go from Here? 157
Appendix Notes on Methodology 171
Notes 177
Selected Bibliography 195
Index 199
 

About the Author

Donne is a professor of sociology at Indiana University. She has published widely in the major sociology journals. Catherine Colleen Evans has worked as an adolescent counselor and social worker. Stephen Parker is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Montevallo, Alabama.