Choosing to Lose our Gender Expertise: Queering Sex/Gender in School Settings

Autor/in	DePalma, Renee
Titel	Choosing to Lose our Gender Expertise: Queering Sex/Gender in School Settings
Quelle	In: Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 13 (2013) 1, S.1-15 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-1811
DOI	10.1080/14681811.2011.634145
Schlagwörter	Gender Differences; Gender Issues; Sexual Identity; Sexual Orientation; Social Attitudes; Elementary Schools; Foreign Countries; Biology; Cultural Influences; Human Body; Consciousness Raising; Curriculum; Sex Education; Participatory Research; Action Research; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geschlechterkonflikt; Geschlechterfrage; Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität; Sexuelle Orientierung; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; Ausland; Biologie; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Menschlicher Körper; Bewusstseinsbildung; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Sex instruction; Sexualaufklärung; Sexualerziehung; Sexualkunde; Forschungstätigkeit; Projektforschung; Großbritannien
Abstract	Most people, school teachers and children included, are altogether too sure about what gender is: there are two "opposite" sexes, man and woman, and gender is the inevitable categorical expression of natural sex. Like all commonsense views, however, the gender binary has been socially constructed through normalising discourses that frame certain ways of thinking and doing as "commonsense" and thus unassailable. As Judith Butler points out, resisting these constructed norms requires a conscious effort to deconstruct our understandings, to "lose our expertise". Drawing upon data collected as part of a broader study addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equalities in English primary schools, this analysis involves a deep interrogation of sex and gender with the aim to help teachers and children understand how sex/gender categories are policed and to recognise and question our complicity in maintaining commonsense understandings of sex and gender. (Contains 6 notes.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10