Constructing sexualities and gendered bodies in school spaces : Nordic insights on queer and transgender students /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2017]
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| Series: | Queer studies and education.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; Statement of Aims; Welcome to Iceland: Entering the Field; Organization of the Book; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 2: The Schooling of Gendered Bodies and Sexualities; LGBTQ+ or Queer as an Identity Label?; Interrupting Hetero and Gender Normativities in the School System; Queer Theory: The Intersection of Gender and Sexuality; Trans Perspective on Gender, Sexuality and Queer Theory; Normalization of Heterosexuality: Heterosexism and Heteronormativity; Queering Space: Queer Spaces
- Disciplinary and Heterotopic Space(s): Power, Subject and ResistanceTechnologies of the Self: Caring and Knowing; Significant Literature that Addresses Key Questions and Issues Related to LGBTQ Youth in Schools and Anti-Homophobic Education; Queer Positionality: Queer Standpoint: Doing Queer Research as a Gay Male Teacher; Summary; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 3: The Nordic Context: LGBTQ Civil Rights and Educational Policies on Gender and Sexual Minorities; The Nordic Context in a Global Comparison as it Refers to LGBTQ Rights; Queering the Arctic: The Case of Iceland
- Education Policies Related to Sexualities and Transgender IdentitiesDenmark; Finland; Iceland; Norway; Sweden; Summary: A Notion of a Queer Utopia in the Nordic; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 4: The Institutionalization of Heteronormativity in Schools; LGBTQ Students' Embodied School Experiences; Heterosexual Matrix, Heterosexism and Gender Normativities; Hegemonic Heterosexual Masculinity; The Homophobic Space of the Classroom; Questioning Sexuality; Destabilizing Sexual and Gender Binaries; Compulsory Heterosexuality and a Question of a Gay-friendly School
- Dialectic Experiences: Heteronormative but Gay-Ưfriendly SchoolsSpatialization of Heteronormativity in Schools; Visual (Digitalized) Construction of Spaces at Hilly High School; Symbolic Construction of Spaces: The Space of Same and Other; The Space of Restrooms, Locker Rooms and the Physical Education Class; Summary; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 5: Ethical Relationality and Heterotopic Spaces in Schools; Practices of the Self: Queer and Trans Subjectivities; Ásta: "You Are Supposed to Behave in a Feminine Way"; Bjarnheiður: "You Don't Have to Look Into a Mirror to Know Yourself"
- Dani: "For Me Gay Pride Was the Final Step of Coming Out, Being Myself"Gunnar: "One Cannot Change What Others Think, One Can Only Change One's Own Views"; Tom: "I Want to Show the World How I See It"; Summary: Claiming Space Through Working at the Limit at the Self; Heterotopic Queering of Spaces in Schools; The Communal Area at Field as an Example of Heterotopic Space; Transgender and Queer Embodiment and Disciplinary Effects of Gender Binary Norms; Summary; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Queering Schools, Queer Pedagogy; Queer Pedagogy and Its Limits