ABSTRACT
Macho values aren’t just made and carried around in boys’ heads. They are also a part of boys’ bodies. Boys spend a great deal of time learning to make their bodies more manly through ‘forceful and space-occupying ways’. They do this through the everyday practices of learning to walk with their shoulders and their chests thrown out, through practising the virile strut, through developing power in their upper bodies, through hardening and toughening their arms, legs, chests, and through learning to look mean.
