A new collection that addresses the problematic pathologization of queer youth, this book argues that the majority of educators and youth workers still know little about queer youth's negotiations of identity and community. The contributors examine the dangerous effects of heteronormalizing practices, and look at how young people negotiate labels and stereotypes in and out of school settings. What makes this project unique is that the contributors go beyond the discussions of homophobia young people experience on an everyday basis - the look at how youth subvert these experiences into those of pleasure, power, and confidence. In addition, the contributors look at how youth organize communities and negotiate positive identities in different settings.
Author(s): Mary Louise Rasmussen, Eric Rofes, Susan Talburt
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 256
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 4
Acknowledgments......Page 6
Introduction: Transforming Discourses of Queer Youth and Educational Practices Surrounding Gender, Sexuality, and Youth......Page 8
Part I: Rethinking Adults and Youth......Page 22
1 Intelligibility and Narrating Queer Youth......Page 24
2 Martyr-Target-Victim: Interrogating Narratives of Persecution and Suffering among Queer Youth......Page 48
3 The Historical Regulation of Sexuality and Gender of Students and Teachers: An Intertwined Legacy......Page 70
4 Subject to Scrutiny: Taking Foucauldian Genealogies to Narratives of Youth Oppression......Page 92
5 Between Sexuality and Narrative: On the Language of Sex Education......Page 116
Part II: Rethinking Youth Practices......Page 135
6 Safety and Subversion: The Production of Sexualities and Genders in School Spaces......Page 137
7 Scout’s Honor: Duty, Citizenship, and the Homoerotic in the Boy Scouts of America......Page 159
8 Agency in Borderland Discourses: Engaging in Gaybonics for Pleasure, Subversion, and Retaliation......Page 183
9 Bent as a Ballet Dancer: The Possibilities for and Limits of Legitimate Homomasculinity in School......Page 207
10 Melancholy and the Productive Negotiations of Power in Sissy Boy Experience......Page 229
Notes on Contributors......Page 249
C......Page 252
G......Page 253
L......Page 254
S......Page 255
Y......Page 256
