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Gay-Straight Alliances and Associations Among Youth in Schools
Cris Mayo
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Description for Gay-Straight Alliances and Associations Among Youth in Schools
Hardback. Series: Queer Studies and Education. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book examines the formation of Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs)—formal and informal—in public schools. These associations provide us with a way to think about intersectionality and tense encounters as spaces of possibility for new kinds of action, new kinds of learning, and newly emergent subjectivities. While such groups are not without problems, they enable a consideration of desire for connection across sexualities, genders, races, and knowledge. By examining subjectivity as a process of negotiation across and within differences in a particular institutional context, the traces of exclusions and gaps in these processes of identification become evident. New formations bear the imprint of ... Read more
This book examines the formation of Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs)—formal and informal—in public schools. These associations provide us with a way to think about intersectionality and tense encounters as spaces of possibility for new kinds of action, new kinds of learning, and newly emergent subjectivities. While such groups are not without problems, they enable a consideration of desire for connection across sexualities, genders, races, and knowledge. By examining subjectivity as a process of negotiation across and within differences in a particular institutional context, the traces of exclusions and gaps in these processes of identification become evident. New formations bear the imprint of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Queer Studies and Education
Condition
New
Number of Pages
169
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137595287
SKU
V9781137595287
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About Cris Mayo
Cris Mayo is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Director of the LGBTQ+ Center at West Virginia University, USA.
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