ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on an autobiographical account of one boy's experience of being educated in an all-boys school in the Upper West Side of New York City. It considers the work of writers and scholars who have studied and written about the nature of photography, as well as the work of artists who make work through the medium of photography. The book also considers the concept of Weak Theory as articulated primarily in the scholarly work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Kathleen Stewart. It also focuses on what the act of intentionally assuming an aesthetic orientation in the study of schooling practices might reveal about life in boys' schools. Engaging in a study of boys' experiences of being educated in independent boys' schools from a post-masculinity perspective is perhaps studying masculinities from the outside in the Groszian sense.
