Complicating Hetero-Femininities: Young Women, Sexualities and "Girl Power" at School

Autor/in	Charles, Claire Elizabeth
Titel	Complicating Hetero-Femininities: Young Women, Sexualities and "Girl Power" at School
Quelle	In: International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 23 (2010) 1, S.33-47 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-8398
Schlagwörter	Secondary Schools; Citizenship; Popular Culture; Females; Sexual Orientation; Foreign Countries; Sexuality; Sexual Identity; Feminism; Secondary School Students; Gender Issues; Social Bias; Social Attitudes; Social Theories; Single Sex Schools; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sekundarschule; Staatsbürgerschaft; Popkultur; Weibliches Geschlecht; Sexuelle Orientierung; Ausland; Sexualität; Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität; Feminismus; Sekundarschüler; Geschlechterfrage; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Gesellschaftstheorie; Single-sex schools; Single-sex classes; Single sex classes; Getrenntgeschlechtliche Erziehung; Schule; Australien
Abstract	This paper is concerned with expanding knowledge of how femininity/sexuality intersections are constituted in secondary schools. Existing studies have drawn upon Judith Butler's notion of a "heterosexual matrix" in order to understand how intersections of femininity/sexuality are produced in schools through normative discourses of heterosexuality and gender. Drawing on "after-queer" theoretical resources from within cultural studies that focus on the deployment of notions of sexuality within constructions of intelligible citizenship, I explore how the femininity/sexuality intersection within secondary schools might be complicated, when the significance of discourses of "girl power", linked with successful neoliberal citizenship, is considered. I analyse young women's discussions of key "girl power" icons in popular culture, generated through fieldwork in an elite girls' school in Australia. Throughout the analysis I explore how understanding intersections of femininity/sexuality in secondary schools requires an analytical framework that can attend to both familiar notions of heterosexuality and gender--and their ongoing currency--as well as how notions of sexuality are mobilized in the production of successful neoliberal girl citizens. I propose that this analytical approach is useful in terms of avoiding the reinscription of sexuality identity categories in education research. (Contains 1 figure and 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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