Gender and Sexualities in Education
Gender and Sexualities in Education By:Elizabeth J. Meyer,Dennis Carlson Published on 2014 by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated This volume is about the education of gender and sexualities, which is to say it explores how gender and sexuality identities and differences get constructed through the process of education and -schooling-. Wittingly or not, educational institutions and educators play an important role in -normalizing- gender and sexuality differences by disciplining, regulating, and producing differences in ways that are -intelligible- within the dominant or hegemonic culture. To make gender and sexuality identities and differences intelligible through education is to understand them through the logic of separable binary oppositions (man-woman, straight-gay), and to valorize and privilege one normalized identity within each binary (man, straight) and simultaneously stigmatize and marginalize the -other- identity (woman, gay). Educational institutions have been set up to normalize ...