Youth and Sexualities: Pleasure, Subversion, and Insubordination in and Out of Schools

by Eric Rofes and Susan Talburt

Book Overview

These cutting-edge international essays challenge dominant narratives of queer youth predicated on oppression and victimization. As school systems address the emergence of Gay-Straight Alliances and calls to provide equal educational access, researchers, educators and youth workers are paying increasing attention to sexuality, gender and schooling. Yet present discourses are limited to liberal understandings of tolerance, safety, and equity that are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403964874
• ISBN13: 9781403964878
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.5"