| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 243 pages) : illustrations |
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Queer studies and education |
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Queer studies and education.
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Dialectic Experiences: Heteronormative but Gay-friendly 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" |
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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 |
| Summary |
This book sheds light on how sexuality and gender intersect in producing heteronormativity within the school system in Iceland. In spite of recent support for progressive policies regarding sexual and gender equality in the country, there remains a discrepancy between policy and practice with respect to LGBTQ rights and attitudes within the school system. This book draws on ethnographic data and interviews with LGBTQ students in high schools across the country and reveals that, although Nordic countries are sometimes portrayed as queer utopias, the school system in Iceland has a long road ahead in making schools more inclusive for all students. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 01, 2017) |
| Subject |
Gender identity in education -- Scandinavia
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Transgender youth -- Education -- Scandinavia
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Sexual minority community -- Education -- Scandinavia
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EDUCATION / Administration / General
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EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions
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Gender identity in education
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Scandinavia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017931682 |
| ISBN |
9781137533333 |
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1137533331 |
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