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Subject(s)

• Homosexuality and education [Browse]
• Education—Social aspects [Browse]
• Gay people—Identity [Browse]
• Lesbians—Identity [Browse]

Related name

• Talburt, Susan [Browse]
• Steinberg, Shirley R., 1952- [Browse]

Series

• Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 118 [More in this series]
• Counterpoints ; vol. 118

Summary note

• "Thinking Queer takes up the challenges of queer theorizing for education by interrogating the effects of representation through voice and visibility, the interplay of social and academic knowledges and ignorances, and the performative aspects of queer identities and practices.
• Engaging ethnography, philosophical policy, and social analysis, cultural and media studies, and theoretical stances from psychoanalysis to complexity theory, the essays in this volume challenge readers to move beyond the logic of identity politics in order to consider the limitations and possibilities of cultural and institutional policies and practices in K-12 and higher educational contexts.
• This volume offers analyses of queer subjects that frame possibilities for new forms of inquiry into queer politics and practices and suggests tactics for educational change."--Jacket.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Part 1 Thinking Theory 1
• 1. Introduction: Some Contradictions and Possibilities of Thinking Queer, Susan Talburt 3
• 2. Dante's Left Foot Kicks Queer Theory into Gear, Marla Morris 15
• 3. Precocious Education, Deborah P. Britzman 33
• 4. Identity Politics, Institutional Response, and Cultural Negotiation: Meanings of a Gay and Lesbian Office on Campus, Susan Talburt 61
• 5. Paranoid Politics, Extremism, and the Religious Right: A Case of Mistaken Identity?, V. Darleen Opfer 85
• 6. Another Queer Theory: Reading Complexity Theory as a Moral and Ethical Imperative, Brent Davis and Dennis J. Sumara 105
• 7. Transgression and the Situated Body: Gender, Sex, and the Gay Male Teacher, Eric Rofes 131
• Part 2 Thinking Culture 151
• 8. From the Closet to the Corral: Neo-stereotyping in In & Out, Shirley R. Steinberg 153
• 9. Terms of Identity: Ellen's Intertextual Coming Out, Nancy Lesko 161
• 10. School Uniforms, Baggy Pants, Barbie Dolls, and Business Suit Cultures on School Boards: A Feminqueering, Glorianne M. Leck 177
• 11. Choosing Alternatives to the Well of Loneliness, Rob Linne 201
• 12. Nurturing Images, Whispering Walls: Identity Intersections and Empowerment in the Academic Workplace, Townsand Price-Spratlen 215.

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LCCN

99053017

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