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Queer Masculinities
eBook - A Critical Reader in Education, Explorations of Educational Purpose
ISBN/EAN: 9789400725522
Umbreit-Nr.: 1844685
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 316 S., 2.99 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 28.09.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen
- Zusatztext
- <p><i>Queer Masculinities: A Critical Reader in Education</i>is a substantial addition to the discussion of queer masculinities, of the interplay between queer masculinities and education, and to the political gender discourse as a whole. Enriching the discourse of masculinity politics, the cross-section of scholarly interrogations of the complexities and contradictions of queer masculinities in education demonstrates that any serious study of masculinityhegemonic or otherwisemust consider the theoretical and political contributions that the concept of queer masculinity makes to a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of masculinity itself.</p><p>The essays adopt a range of approaches from empirical studies to reflective theorizing, and address themselves to three separate educational realms: the K-12 level, the collegiate level, and the level in popular culture, which could be called cultural pedagogy. The wealth of detailed analysis includes, for example, the notion thatnormative expectations and projections on the part of teachers and administrators unnecessarily reinforce the values and behaviors of heteronormative masculinity, creating an institutionalized loop that disciplines masculinity. At the same time, and for this very reason, schools represent an opportunity to provide a setting where a broader menu can be introduced and gender/sexual meanings, expressions, and experiences boys encounter can create new possibilities of what it can mean to be male. At the collegiate level chapters include analysis of what the authors call homosexualization of heterosexual men on the university dance floor, while the chapters of the third section, on popular culture, include a fascinating analysis of the construction of queer counternarratives that can be constructed watching TV shows of apparently hegemonic bent. In all, this volumes breadth and detail make it a landmark publication in the study of queer masculinities, and thus in critical masculinity studies as a whole.</p>
- Kurztext
- This book promotes dialogue and debate on the understudied and under-theorized topic of queer masculinities and education, offering scholarly contributions to critical masculinity studies, to gender and sexuality studies and to the field of education.
- Autorenportrait
- <p><b>John C. Landreau</b> is associate professor of womens and gender studies at The College of New Jersey. His research interests include masculinity and the rhetoric of war, gender and literature, and Latin American masculinities. He has published previously on Peruvian and Andean literature and language.</p><p><b>Nelson M. Rodriguez</b> is assistant professor of womens and gender studies and of educational foundations and critical pedagogy at The College of New Jersey. He is also a research fellow at the Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His current research areas include LGBT and queer studies, critical masculinity studies, critical heterosexual studies, queer studies in education, and queer/trans pedagogies. His most recent publication (with William F. Pinar) is Queering Straight Teachers: Discourse and Identity in Education (2007). His forthcoming book (with Cris Mayo) is QueerPedagogies: Theory, Praxis, Politics.</p>