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Queer Teachers, Identity and Performativity

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education Book Series

Editors: Harris, Anne; Gray, Emily M.

DOI: 10.1057/9781137441928

ISBN: 978-1-349-49492-7

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Sep 21, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction: Marked Presence/Unremarkable Absence: Queer Teachers, ‘Identity’ and Performativity

Gray, Emily M.; Harris, Anne

Pages: 1 –10

[This short volume aims to engage with the study of queer teachers internationally. It offers new ways of thinking about queer teacher practices and perspectives, away from the deficit positioning of queer teachers and towards a critical engagement with queer teachers as local, national and...
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Chapter 2Trans Teacher Experiences and the Failure of Visibility

Harris, Anne; Jones, Tiffany

Pages: 11 –28

[This chapter draws on one case study of a trans* male-identifying teacher in an urban high school in Melbourne, Australia. As a counter-discourse to contemporary popular notions of more inclusive and anti-homophobic schools, this chapter proposes that trans* teacher experiences are still an...
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Chapter 3Reframing Queer Teacher Subjects: Neither in nor Out but Present

Ferfolja, Tania

Pages: 29 –44

[Queer teachers have been cast as victims of heterosexist institutions, experiencing a range of external and self-imposed silencing technologies that render them marginalised and invisible. This chapter, drawing on recent research across Australia, illustrates how many queer teachers agentically...
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Chapter 4Teachers and Civil Partnership: (Re)Producing Legitimate Subjectivities in the Straight Spaces of Schools

Neary, Aoife

Pages: 45 –59

[LGBTQI teachers in Ireland experience identity conflicts and struggles with school culture as they negotiate the processes of ‘coming out’ in their school contexts (Neary, 2013). This chapter draws on an interpretive analysis of qualitative data generated from the interviews and written...
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Chapter 5Out in Britain: The Politics of Sexuality Education and Lesbian and Gay Teachers in Schools

Rudoe, Naomi

Pages: 60 –74

[The increasing normalisation of sexual diversity and legislative gay equality in Britain are demonstrated with the recent passing of the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Bill, and the 2010 Equality Act, which made it unlawful to discriminate against employees on the basis of sexual orientation. This...
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Chapter 6LGBTQ Teachers and the Location of Difference in English Schools

Gray, Emily M.

Pages: 75 –89

[Until recently, most research in the area of sexuality and schooling has focused upon young people and largely overlooked the experiences of LGBTQ adults working within schools. This chapter examines the experiences of LGBTQ teachers in England as they negotiate professional lives that are...
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Chapter 7Conclusion: Extravagance and Equity: Queer Tensions in Education

Mayo, Cris

Pages: 90 –96

[Maintaining the relationship between criticality and queerness is a necessary task, a point made well by the essays in this volume and articulated by queer teachers and queer researchers in various importantly challenging ways. As normalcy begins to potentially overtake us, it is more than ever...

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