Discourses that Silence: Teachers and Anti-Lesbian Harassment

Autor/in	Ferfolja, Tania
Titel	Discourses that Silence: Teachers and Anti-Lesbian Harassment
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 29 (2008) 1, S.107-119 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Homosexuality; Females; Social Bias; Teaching Conditions; Social Attitudes; Victims of Crime; Educational Environment; Civil Rights; Secondary School Teachers; Bullying; Antisocial Behavior; Gender Issues; Ethnicity; Child Development; Adolescent Development; Sexual Orientation; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Homosexualität; Weibliches Geschlecht; Lehrbedingungen; Unterrichtsbedingungen; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Mobbing; Geschlechterfrage; Ethnizität; Kindesentwicklung; Sexuelle Orientierung; Australien
Abstract	This paper examines the way lesbian identities are silenced in schools particularly through anti-lesbian harassment. Based on research with 30 self-identified lesbian teachers working across high schools in New South Wales, Australia, the discussion illustrates how various responses to anti-lesbian harassment silence the recognition of such harassment, contributing to the invisibility of lesbian identities in schools generally. The argument highlights the shifting nature of both the subject and power. It illustrates how discursively (re)positioning harassers re-establishes and reinforces the harassed teacher's personal and professional power; however, this simultaneously serves to rationalise the harassment. This silences the awareness of the prevalence of anti-lesbian abuse by individualising the behaviour and pathologising the harasser, while ignoring broader socio-political discourses that maintain the frequently subordinated location of lesbian subjectivities. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10