Youth and Sexualities: Pleasure, Subversion, and Insubordination In and Out of Schools
These cutting-edge international essays challenge dominant narratives of queer youth predicated on oppression and victimization. As school systems address the emergence of Gay-Straight Alliances and calls to provide equal educational access, researchers, educators and youth workers are paying increasing attention to sexuality, gender and schooling. Yet present discourses are limited to liberal understandings of tolerance, safety, and equity that are defined by a separation of "queer" and...
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These cutting-edge international essays challenge dominant narratives of queer youth predicated on oppression and victimization. As school systems address the emergence of Gay-Straight Alliances and calls to provide equal educational access, researchers, educators and youth workers are paying increasing attention to sexuality, gender and schooling. Yet present discourses are limited to liberal understandings of tolerance, safety, and equity that are defined by a separation of "queer" and "normal." This text documents and offers radical interpretations of the creativity of queer youth in challenging existing practices. Interdisciplinary analyses offer multiple vantage points for reconceptualizing adolescent sexual subjectivities and institutional and cultural practices.
Introduction: Transforming Discourses of Queer Youth and Educational Practices Surrounding Gender, Sexuality, and Youth--Susan Talburt, Eric Rofes, Mary Louise Rasmussen * Part I: Rethinking Adults and Youth • Intelligibility and Narrating Queer Youth--Susan Talburt • Martyr, Target, Victim: Interrogating Narratives of Persecution and Suffering among Queer Youth--Eric Rofes • The Historical Regulation of Sexuality and Gender of Students and Teachers: An Intertwined Legacy--Jackie M. Blount and Sine Anahita • Subject to Scrutiny: Taking Foucauldian Genealogies to Narratives of Youth Oppression--Valerie Harwood • Between Sexuality and Narrative: On the Language of Sex Education--Jen Gilbert * Part II: Rethinking Youth Practices • Safety and Subversion: The Production of Sexualities and Genders in School Spaces--Mary Lou Rasmussen • Scout's Honor: Duty, Citizenship, and the Homoerotic in the BSA--Andrea Coleman, Mary Ehrenworth, and Nancy Lesko • Agency in Borderland Discourses: Engaging in Gaybonics for Pleasure, Subversion, and Retaliation--Mollie V. Blackburn • Bent as a Ballet Dancer: The Possibilities for and Limits of Legitimate Homo-masculinity in School--Deborah Youdell • Melancholy and the Productive Negotiations of Power in Sissy Boy Experience--David McInnes
