Becoming Subjects: Sexualities and Secondary Schooling

by Mary Louise Rasmussen

Overview

This book focuses on key contemporary discourses related to sexualities and schooling. Such discourses include: educational strategies used to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students; considerations of how educators might influence students' sexual identity; narratives of risk and violence often asociated with LGBT youth; stories of salvation and protection; as well as debates relating to the 'closet' and calls to 'come out' in the classroom. People often are left out of discussions of sexualities and schooling are also incorporated in this text.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136081941
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/12/2012
Series:	Reconstructing the Public Sphere in Curriculum Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Mary Louise Rasmussen is a Senior Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy at Monash University. She is the co-editor, with Susan Talburt and Eric Rofes, of Youth andSexualities: Pleasure, Subversion and Insubordination Inand Out of Schools. Currently her research focuses on the intersections between arts, identity and public pedagogies.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Queer Trepidations and the Art of Inclusion; Chapter 2 Queering Epistemologies and Methodologies; Chapter 3 Identities, Sexual Subjectivities, and Three Modes of Objectification of Subjects; Chapter 4 Processes of Subjectivization and Identification; Chapter 5 Scientific Classification; Chapter 6 Dividing Practices; Chapter 7 Melancholy, Grief, and Pleasure: Unsettling Passionate Attachments to Subjection; conclusion Conclusion;

Editorial Reviews

'Rasmussen's book contributes to and builds on existing work within the field of sexuality and schooling by providing alternatives to binary theorising of hetero/homo, in-or-out, safety and risk ... The theoretical underpinning of the book will surely inform and guide a great deal of future research in the field, as it is brimming with rich ideas.' - Gender and Education

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