Subject to Identity: Knowledge, Sexuality, and Academic Practices in Higher Education
Talburt (educational policy studies, Georgia State U.) uses an interpretive ethnography to explore the academic practices of three lesbian faculty members at famed Liberal University, a public research institution. She uses post-structural theories to transcend constructions of lesbian faulty that rely on identity, voices, and visibility and to consider instead the construction and shifting meanings of academic research, teaching, and collegial relations in practice. Annotation c. Book News,...
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AcknowledgmentsviiChapter 1Haunted Questions, Inhabited Spaces1Seeking to Found a Location: The Gay Academic Union4Lesbian Identity Politics: The Limitations of Full Disclosure8Identity into Practice13Intellectual Practice among the Ruins17Delimiting Lesbian Academic Spaces21Entering the Inquiry24Narrative Knowing as Practice34Chapter 2Social and Institutional Places and Spaces39Entering Oasis and Liberal U: Island Communities40Finding a Place for Diversity45Centering Gays and Lesbians52Centering Liberal U: "The Circles in Which We Move"62Confessing Sins: The Work of Faculty63Locating Knowledges and Identities72Chapter 3Displacing Pedagogical Positionings75Opening Scenes75Im/Personal Pedagogies82Carol: Critical Enlightenment86Cross-Directions: Carol's Performances of Authority and Identity91Julie: Complications as Response98Stirring Them Up: Julie's "Particular Kind of Embodiment"103Olivia: Is There a Text in This Class?112"We Can't Reduce the Play [or Olivia] to One Message"121Less Euclidean Spaces129Chapter 4Departmental Academic and Social Knowledges137Other/Same139Julie and the Liminal Gap143Carol and Shifting Authority156Olivia and the Performance of Locations171Appropriation and Practice184Chapter 5Lesbian/Intellectual191Olivia: "The Cranky Lesiban Critic"192Carol: "You Don't Just Stay in a Place and Wallow in It"199Julie: "Responding to a Real Concrete Problem"206Exceeding Locations: Practices of the Self214Queer Ethnographic Spaces221Notes227Bibliography257Index275
