This paper explores how economically disadvantaged girls with disabilities resist masculine domination at Rwanda's largest inclusive school, Busengare Secondary. Based on 16 in-depth interviews and 3 focus group interviews with Rwandan girls with disabilities, this study draws on critical feminist perspectives to examine the subjectivities of…

Across the analysis of interview fragments from two young men with hearing disabilities who attended secondary schools in Australia, this paper will demonstrate that masculinity in the schoolyard frequently emerges within and as a collective form of violence and malevolence against the disabled body. Yet while certain individuals or groups may…

Describes a feminist project on masculinities involving boys in a special education school. These labeled, segregated boys were invested in achieving successful positioning within a culture of hegemonic masculinity. Institutional and media preoccupations with quantifiable academic attainments had reinscribed them within a world of hetero/sexist…